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The nature of the change is indicated in the old fable of the

temple of Zeus Lycaeus, which tells how he who tastes human flesh

mixed up with the flesh of other victims will turn into a wolf.

Even so the protector, who tastes human blood, and slays some and

exiles others with or without law, who hints at abolition of

debts and division of lands, must either perish or become a

wolf-that is, a tyrant. Perhaps he is driven out, but he soon

comes back from exile; and then if his enemies cannot get rid of

him by lawful means, they plot his assassination. Thereupon the

friend of the people makes his well-known request to them for a

body-guard, which they readily grant, thinking only of his danger

and not of their own. Now let the rich man make to himself wings,

for he will never run away again if he does not do so then. And

the Great Protector, having crushed all his rivals, stands

proudly erect in the chariot of State, a full-blown tyrant: Let

us enquire into the nature of his happiness.