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ἐς τὰ κοινά: parallel to ἐς τὸ κοινόν above. The antithetical style of the Sophists is very traceable here.

παύσῃ. Cf. the hopes that Alcibiades in 408 B. C. would prove a ‘saviour of society’ at Athens (Diod. xiii. 68), and, on a larger scale, the acceptance of the Napoleonic rule as a salvation from ‘the Red Terror’. So Deioces was made ruler by the Medes (i. 97), to save them from ἀνομία. For the origin of tyranny generally cf. App. XVI.

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