Dieses trifft diejenigen, welche für Geld oder durch die Gnade eines Andern Fürsten geworden sind: zum Beispiel manche Griechen sind vom Darius zu Fürsten in Ionien und am Hellespont gemacht, damit sie seine Sicherheit und sein Ansehn beförderten. So auch sind viele Kaiser durch Bestechung der Soldaten zu ihrer Würde gelangt.
Such are those to whom some state is given either for money or by the favour of him who bestows it; as happened to many in Greece, in the cities of Ionia and of the Hellespont, where princes were made by Darius, in order that they might hold the cities both for his security and his glory; as also were those emperors who, by the corruption of the soldiers, from being citizens came to empire.