2. Politikē archē, in the particular sense of citizens ruling over fellow-citizens; cf. I i, v, vii.

3. Herodotus (II 172) relates how King Amasis of Egypt (sixth century), being reproached for his humble origins, had a foot-basin refashioned into a statue of a god, which the Egyptians then worshipped – the moral being that it is what one is now that matters.

4. Iliad I, 144.