To flatterhim, flag-waving schoolchildren lined the streets, Egyptian bedouins with links to Mr Qaddafi's own tribe cheered him on, and the state-controlled media offered blanket coverage of his forays to the Egyptian Museum and the tomb of Gamal Abdel Nasser, the Egyptian president whom Mr Qaddafi still idolises as a hero of Arab nationalism.
Indifferent to the praise of "the common people, " he will not "flatter them for their love, " and his adamant refusal to do so makes him vulnerable to the scheming of a pair of jealous pols (Philip Goodwin and Derrick Lee Weeden) who seek to bring Coriolanus to his knees by turning the fickle mob against him.