Ammianus Marcellinus, Rerum Gestarum, Book XXVIII, chapter 4, section 27

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[27] When these people seek any loan, you will see them in slippers like a Micon or a Laches; ¹ when [p. 157] they are urged to pay, they wear such lofty buskins and are so arrogant that you would think them Cresphontes and Temenus, the famous Heraclidae. ² So much for the senate.

1 Characters in comedy; i.e., they are humble and obsequious.

2 Rulers respectively of Messene and of Argos, hence characters in tragedy, contrasted with Micon and Laches.

Ammianus Marcellinus. With An English Translation. John C. Rolfe, Ph.D., Litt.D. Cambridge. Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann, Ltd. 1935-1940.

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