The man who reigns (1)

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Bar Hebraeus, Laughable Stories 20:
711. The man who reigns when yet exceedingly young, that is to say in his childhood, being naturally of a good disposition, will not live to an old age, and in his hands the sovereignty will pass from his race, and things will happen in his time which have never happened before. Similarly, if a man reign in the prime of life, and he is naturally of a wicked, avaricious, and greedy dispositon, his kingdom will not endure. But the kingdom of the man who comes to the throne when he is forty or fifty years of age, being naturally of a good disposition, will endure in proportion to the age which he is when he begins to reign. This fact has been demonstrated by the experience of a great many sages of old.

Source (list of abbreviations)
Bar Hebraeus, Laughable Stories 20

Bibliography

Amar Annus

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