Phalaris, seeing a multitude of doves being pursued by a single hawk, remarked, "Do you observe, sirs, how fear will make so great a multitude flee before a single pursuer? And yet if they should summon the courage to turn about, they would easily overcome their pursuer." Diodorus Siculus. Bibliotheca historica. Book 9. Chapter 30.
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| Mosaic of the Doves 100-199 CE Roman copy from a 2nd century BCE original attributed to Sosos photographed at the Capitoline Museum in Rome. |
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