Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata
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Orontes, the son-in-law of King Artaxerxes, became involved in disgrace because of an accusation,
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and, when the decision was given against him, he said that, as mathematicians’ fingers are able to represent tens of thousands at one time, and at another
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time only units,
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so it was the same with the friends of kings: at one time they are omnipotent and at another time almost impotent.
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