Book 15
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There was a certain man at Cius named Molpagoras, The intrigues and tyranny of Molpagoras at Cius, in Bithynia. a ready speaker and of considerable ability in affairs, but at heart a mere demagogue and selfish intriguer. By flattering the mob, and putting the richer citizens into its power, he either got them put to death right out, or drove them into exile and distributed their confiscated goods among the common people, and thus rapidly secured for himself a position of despotic power. . . .
