Ep. 59. To Nausicles. *** Ep. 60. To Aristolochus. *** Ep. 61. To Epicharmus.
V. Ep. 38.
THe good Advice which you and Demoteles jointly offer me; that I
The epistles of Phalaris translated into English from the original Greek by S. Whately ... ; to which is added Sir W. Temple's Character of the epistles of Phalaris ; together with an appendix of some other epistles lately discovered in a French ms.
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should lay down my usurped Power, and return to the condition of a Private man, I do not interpret as proceeding from Ill will in either of you, but from Simplicity in both of you. The first As∣suming a Tyrannick power is owing to a man's own Choice, but he is not at the same Liberty of Divesting himself of it again. What Ambition engaged him to Seize, Necessity will oblige him to hold. For he is certainly a Lost man that shall render himself Accountable as a Private person, for the Actions committed by him when a Prince: Nothing but the same Power which enabled him to Commit them being able to Defend them. When once the Arrow is fled from the Bow, in vain may the Archer wish it back again. Were it a thing Possible for you to un∣do what is done, and make me never to have been a Tyrant, I should thank you for it; but if that be an Impossibility, as Impossible is it for you to perswade me that the following your Advice would be for my own Good.