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.
E questi tali sono, quando è concesso ad alcuno uno stato o per danari o per grazia di chi lo concede: come intervenne a molti in Grecia, nelle città di Ionia e di Ellesponto, dove furono fatti principi da Dario, acciò le tenessino per sua sicurtà e gloria; come erano fatti ancora quelli imperatori che, di privati, per corruzione de' soldati, pervenivano allo imperio.