Now of this confidence in others despots enjoy the smallest share. They go in
						constant suspicion even of their meat and drink; they bid their servitors
						taste them first, before the libation is offered to the gods, because of
						their misgiving that they may sup poison in the dish or the bowl. Again, to all other men their fatherland is very precious. For citizens ward
						one another without pay from their slaves and from evildoers, to the end
						that none of the citizens may perish by a violent death.