Corruption by persuasion

Those who achieve their ends by force are hated by the persons forced. While those who used persuasion corrupted thereby their victims' souls.   Lysias.  On The Murder of Eratosthenes.  Book 1.  Section 32.

Pan and Daphnis or Olympus Roman copy of Hellenistic original 2nd century CE
photographed at the Archaeological Museum in Naples.

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