Tiridates quoque regni profugus per silentium aut modice querendo gravior erat:'Non enim ignavia magna imperia contineri; virorum armorumque faciendum certamen; id in summa fortuna aequius quod validius, et sua retinere privatae domus, de alienis certare regiam laudem esse.
Tiridates too, dethroned and exiled, carried a weight increased by his silence or his restrained protests:'Great empires were not conserved by inaction'they needed the conflict of men and arms. With princes might was the only right. To retain its own possessions was the virtue of a private family: in contending for those of others lay the glory of a king.
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