Yes; but neither do I mean that simply recognizing their superiors makes people discreet, unless they are punished by those superiors, as my father now is.
But said Cyrus, your father has not yet suffered the least harm; but he is afraid, to be sure, that he will suffer the worst.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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