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I am speaking, as before, of injustice on a large scale in which

the advantage of the unjust is most apparent; and my meaning will

be most clearly seen if we turn to that highest form of injustice

in which the criminal is the happiest of men, and the sufferers

or those who refuse to do injustice are the most miserable-that

is to say tyranny, which by fraud and force takes away the

property of others, not little by little but wholesale;

comprehending in one, things sacred as well as profane, private

and public; for which acts of wrong, if he were detected

perpetrating any one of them singly, he would be punished and

incur great disgrace-they who do such wrong in particular cases

are called robbers of temples, and man-stealers and burglars and

swindlers and thieves.