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So the comic poet Cratinus, in his
‘Cheirons,’ says:
‘Faction and Saturn, that ancient of days, were united in wedlock; their offspring was of all tyrants the greatest, and lo! he is called by the gods the head-compeller.’
1 And again in his
‘Nemesis’:
‘Come, Zeus! of guests and heads the Lord!’
2
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1916. 3.
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