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tyrants

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n. (plural of tyrant English)

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The tyrants were popular, and had it not been for the Spartan army, Cleisthenes would never have overthrown Hippias.

If seers can hold their own in facing petty tyrants, they can certainly face the unknown with impunity, and then they can even stand the presence of the unknowable.

Jaghut Tyrants had not commanded such heartless mastery over their subjects.

Then Tyrants arose among the Jaghut, who found pleasure in enslaving them, in forcing upon them a nightmarish existencethat successive generations were born into and so knew of no other life, knew nothing of freedom itself.

And now, dominators and tyrants abound on all sidesyet are they Jaghut?

The other four belong to the known, exactly where the petty tyrants are lodged.

In fact, what turns human beings into petty tyrants is precisely the obsessive manipulation of the known.

Four attributes are all that is needed to deal with the worst of petty tyrants, provided, of course, that a petty tyrant has been found.

Even the worst tyrants can bring delight, provided, of course, that one is a warrior.

Petty tyrants take themselves with deadly seriousness while warriors do not.

After warriors are defeated they either regroup themselves or they abandon the quest for knowledge and join the ranks of the petty tyrants for life.

Dealing with petty tyrants helps seers accomplish a sophisticated maneuver: that maneuver is to move their assemblage points.

Ponder that splendid family of tyrants who used to live on the Acropolis before they were driven out of the city, as everyone truly noble is driven out sooner or later.

Ionian nobility would ally itself with the rabble and overthrow the tyrants in much the same way that a similar alliance at Athens was in the process of expelling the last of the Pisistratids.

To this day the young killers can be seen, looking up at those good tyrants whom their jealousy and folly drove from a city that will never again know anything like the long and glorious peace so honorably maintained by the Pisistratids.