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Subjects somehow tend to be affected by the resolute spirit of their leaders. As the proverb has it: Deer ought not to rule over lions, but lions over deer.

— Leo VI the Wise Tactica (895)

Τοῖς γὰρ τῶν ἀρχόντων φρονήμασι φιλεῖ πως συνδιατί-θεσθαι τὸ ἀρχόμενον, ὡς ἂν κατὰ τὴν παροιμίαν· μὴ ἔλαφοι λεόντων ἄρχουσιν ἀλλὰ λέοντες ἐλάφων.

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