o the blessing of a fatherland each citizen may spend his
days in peace and safety."

But for the tyrant it is again exactly the reverse. (9) Instead of
aiding or avenging their despotic lord, cities bestow large honours
on the slayer of a tyrant; ay, and in lieu of excommunicating the
tyrannicide from sacred shrines, (10) as is the case with murderers of
private citizens, they set up statues of the doers of such deeds (11) in
temples.

(9) "Matters are once more reversed precisely," "it is all
'topsy-turvy.'"

(10) "And sacrifices." Cf. Dem. "c. Lept." 137, {en toinun tois peri
touton nomois o Drakon... katharon diorisen einai}. "Now in the
laws upon this subject, Draco, although he strove to make it
fearful and dreadful for a man to slay another, and ordained that
the homicide should be excluded from lustrations, cups, and
drink-offerings, from the temples and the market-place, specifying
everything by which he thought most effectually to restrain people
from such a practice, still did not abolish the rule of justice,
but laid down the cases in which it should be lawful to kill, and
declared that the killer under such circumstances should be deemed
pure" (C. R. Kennedy).

(11) e.g. Harmodius and Aristogeiton. See Dem. loc. cit. 138: "The
same rewards that you gave to Harmodius and Aristogiton,"
concerning whom Simonides himself wrote a votive couplet:

{'E meg' 'Athenaioisi phoos geneth' enik' 'Aristogeiton
'Ipparkhon kteine kai 'Armodios.}

But if you imagine that the tyrant, because he has more possessions than
the private person, does for that reason derive greater pleasure from
them, this is not so either, Simonides, but it is with tyrants as with
athletes. Just as the athlete feels no glow of satisfaction in asserting
his superiority over amateurs, (12) but annoyance rather when he
sustains defeat at the hands of any real antagonist; so, too, the tyrant
finds little consolation in the fact (13) that he is evidently richer
than the private citizen. What he feels is pain, when he reflects that
he has less himself than other monarchs. These he holds to be his true
antagonists; these are his rivals in the race for wealth.

(12) Or, "It gives no pleasure to the athlete to win victories over
amateurs." See "Mem." III. viii. 7.

(13) Or, "each time it is brought home to him that," etc.

Nor does the tyrant attain the object of h