"How is this? Ought not the petitioner to speak first, and the conqueror to listen in silence?"
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To Mithridates VI of Pontus, at a peace conference, as quoted in "Sylla" by Plutarch in Plutarch's Lives as translated by John Dryden
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Sulla
Lucius Cornelius Sulla Felix (c. 138 BC – 78 BC) was a Roman General and Dictator.
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