βIt yearns for him, and hates him too, but wants him back;βand again, veiling a yet greater severity in his metaphor:β
A lion is not to be reared within the state;
But, once you've reared him up, consult his every mood.
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but an Eros armed with a thunderbolt. The reputable men of the city looked on all these things with loathing and indignation, and feared his contemptuous and lawless spirit. They thought such conduct as his tyrant-like and monstrous. How the common folk felt towards him has been well set forth by Aristophanes1 in these words:β
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1916. 4.
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