Non deerat talia concupiscenti perniciosa adulatio, perpetuum malum regum, quorum opes saepius assentatio  quam hostis evertit.
In his desire for such things he did not lack pernicious adulation, the constant evil of kings, whose power is more frequently overthrown by flattery than by foes.
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