Take Me to Your Leader

Philemon, fragment 31 Kassel and Austin (tr. T.F. Higham): I serve my master: you, and countless others, Are governed by convention. Some, again, Obey a tyrant, ruled himself by fear. Kings have their servants, but submit to gods: God, to Necessity. Considered well, All things in their degree give place, the small By nature's law made subject to the greater. ἐμοῦ γάρ ἐστι κύριος <μὲν> εἷς ἀνήρ, τούτου δὲ καὶ οοῦ μυρίων τ᾽ ἄλλων νόμος, ἑτέρων τύραννος, τῶν τυραννούντων φόβος· δοῦλοι βαοιλέων εἰςίν, ὁ βασιλεὺς θεῶν, ὁ θεὸς ἀνάγκης. πάντα δ᾽, ἂν σκοπῇς, ὅλως 5 ἑτέρων πέφυκεν ἥττον᾽· ὧν δὲ μείζονα, τούτοις ἀνάγκη ταῦτα δουλεύειν ἀεί.