From Fronto I learned how much envy, fraud, and hypocrisy surround a tyrant. I also learned that those who are commonly called noble-born often lack natural human affection.
Of Fronto, to how much envy and fraud and hypocrisy the state of a tyrannous king is subject unto, and how they who are commonly called εὐπατρίδαι, _i.e._ nobly born, are in some sort incapable, or void of natural affection.