“Regum timendorum in proprios greges, Reges in ipsos imperium est Jovis, Clari giganteo triumpho, Cuncta supercilio moventis.” Horatii, Carm. Liber in Ode i.

“Ad generum Cereris sine caede et sanguine pauci, Descendunt reges, et sicca morte tyranni.” “Few kings and tyrants go down to Pluto, the son-in-law of Ceres, without being put to a violent death, before they have completed the ordinary term allotted to the life of mortal man.” That translation…