King of a Slavish Race
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Achilles accuses Atrides of being a base king, who rules capriciously over a people now made slavish, having forgotten their past freedoms.
Scourge of they people, violent and base!
Sent in Jove's anger on a slavish race;
Who, lost to sense of generous freedom past,
Are tamed to wrongs; -- or this had been thy last.
Book I, Page 9, The Iliad