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He is like a wealthy owner of slaves, only he has more of them

than any private individual. You will say, 'The owners of slaves

are not generally in any fear of them.' But why? Because the

whole city is in a league which protects the individual. Suppose

however that one of these owners and his household is carried off

by a god into a wilderness, where there are no freemen to help

him-will he not be in an agony of terror?-will he not be

compelled to flatter his slaves and to promise them many things

sore against his will? And suppose the same god who carried him

off were to surround him with neighbours who declare that no man

ought to have slaves, and that the owners of them should be

punished with death. 'Still worse and worse! He will be in the

midst of his enemies.' And is not our tyrant such a captive soul,

who is tormented by a swarm of passions which he cannot indulge;

living indoors always like a woman, and jealous of those who can

go out and see the world?