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He thought no doubt that "Omnium manibus res humanæ egent: paucorum capita sufficiunt." "Human affairs require the hands of all, whilst the heads of few are sufficient."

Sir John Carr - The Stranger in France: or, a Tour from Devonshire to Paris Illustrated by: Engravings in Aqua Tint of Sketches Taken on the Spot.

In urbe Adelaide panis praemio parvi aut paucorum denariorum meretrices fieri eas libenter cogunt. Facile potest intelligi, amorem inter nuptos vix posse esse grandem, quum omnia quae ad foeminas attinent, hominum arbitrio ordinentur et tanta sexuum societati laxitas, et adolescentes quibus ita multae ardoris explendi dantur occasiones, haud magnopere uxores, nisi ut servas desideraturos.

Edward John Eyre - Journals of Expeditions of Discovery into Central Australia and Overland from Adelaide to King George's Sound in the Years 1840-1: Sent By the Colonists of South Australia, with the Sanction and Support of the Government: Including an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Aborigines and the State of Their Relations with Europeans — Volume 02

By these, the spoils of the world were appropriated, and its government abused: Caesar gave the helpless peoples a legal sovereign, and preserved them from the lawless tyranny of a thousand masters. He narrates himself, that "he found the Romans enslaved by a faction, and he restored their liberty:" "Caesar interpellat; ut Populum Romanum, paucorum factione oppressum, in libertatem vindicat."

Cornelius Tacitus - The Reign of Tiberius, Out of the First Six Annals of Tacitus; : With His Account of Germany, and Life of Agricola