Iam Xerxes, cuius in nomine superbia et impotentia habitat, suo iure tam insolenter, quod Graeciae indicturus bellum, adhibitis Asiae principibus, ne viderer inquit meo tantummodo usus consilio, vos contraxi; ceterum mementote parendum magis vobis esse quam suadendum.
Xerxes now, in whose name dwells pride and outrageousness, was insolent as of right, in that when he was about to declare war on Greece, he summoned the leading men of Asia and said: I have brought you together so I might not seem to have used only my own counsel. Remember, however, that your function is to obey rather than to advise.
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