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handed to the people to win their loyalty makes a king not a king but a lackey and caterer, and is really corruption, for the receiver grows worse and expects more.

Recast in definition form from: “Lackey and caterer” is well said, since such conduct is mean for a king; and still better was it that he termed lavish giving “corruption. For he who receives such gifts grows worse, and more ready to expect the like in all time to come.”

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