Under the rule of a violent and unscrupulous tyrant, the hal... - Aristophanes

"Under the rule of a violent and unscrupulous tyrant, the halter is preferable to the rope."

Aristophanes Freedom

Comic Playwright Ancient Greece 446–386

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