how are we to bear with such slaves?’ ‘My friend, it’s a matter of bearing with your own brother, who has Zeus as his ancestor and is a son born of the same seed as yourself, with the same high lineage. [4] ‘If you have been placed in a position above others, are you automatically going to behave like a despot? Remember who you are and whom you govern – that they are kinsmen, brothers by nature, fellow descendants of Zeus.’ [5] ‘But I have a bill of sale for them, while they have none for me.’ ‘Don’t you see that, instead of the laws of the gods, you only have regard for the earth, the pit and
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