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Fellow partisans, it is plain that one of us must be made king,... but I shall not compete with you; I desire neither to rule nor to be ruled; but if I waive my claim to be king, I make this condition, that neither I nor any of my descendants shall be subject to any one of you.
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It is still not enough for language to have clarity and content … it must also have a goal and an imperative. Otherwise from language we descend to chatter, from chatter to babble and from babble to confusion.
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Otanes is a name given to several figures that appear in the Histories of Herodotus. One or more of these figures may be the same person.
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