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Let them hate me, so long as they fear me.

[Óderint, dum métuant.]

Accius (170-c. 86 BC) Roman tragic poet, literary scholar [Lucius Accius, Lucius Attius]
Atreus (fragment 168) [tr. Kline (2010)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/lucius-accius/20033/

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Accius - Atreus (fragment 168) [tr. Kline (2010)] | WIST Quotations

Let them hate me, so long as they fear me. [Óderint, dum métuant.] A fragment from Accius' work, known only by its quotation by others. The phrase was often used by classical writers as a hallmark of a tyrannical ruler. This includes: Cicero, Pro Sestio, 48/102 (where he regrets that…

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