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Phalaris, seeing a multitude of doves being
pursued by a single hawk, remarked, "Do you observe, sirs, how fear will make so great a
multitude flee before a single pursuer? And yet if they should summon the courage to turn
about, they would easily overcome their pursuer." (But it was Phalaris himself who was
falsifying; for the victory was won by courage and not by superiority of numbers.)1 And as a result of
this speech Phalaris lost his dominion, as it is recorded in the section "On the Succession of
Kings."
1 Obviously a scholiast's comment.
Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.
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