Lucius Cornelius Sulla Quote

How is this? Ought not the petitioner to speak first, and the conqueror to listen in silence?


To Mithridates VI of Pontus, at a peace conference, as quoted in "Sylla" by Plutarch in Plutarch's Lives as translated by John Dryden


How is this? Ought not the petitioner to speak first, and the conqueror to listen in silence?

How is this? Ought not the petitioner to speak first, and the conqueror to listen in silence?

How is this? Ought not the petitioner to speak first, and the conqueror to listen in silence?

How is this? Ought not the petitioner to speak first, and the conqueror to listen in silence?