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Boon, Onesicritus

Antisthenes

“Doi wrote works delineating the role of the ideal king, it was evidently not monarchy (or the principate) as such that he objected to, but tyranny - typified, for instance, by confiscation of the property of the rich to fill the royal coffers, arbitrary executions, and - most galling of all to Dio and his Cynic cohorts - ruthless suppression of free speech, especially speech critical of the emperor.” (xxxiii)