You might as well pack up and go home, and then they'll say, 'No, king, no, we refuse to do that. We insist on staying.

你不妨收拾行装,返回家乡,那样他们就会说,'不,王,我们拒绝这么做,我们坚持要留下来

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But it's very interesting that when you get to historical Greece, as we shall see, there are no wanaktes but there are, at least according to tradition, basileis.

但相当有趣的是,在希腊历史中我们看不到王这一称谓,但至少是根据传说是有君主这一称谓出现的

耶鲁公开课 - 古希腊历史简介课程节选

So, what you see in this very brief and inadequate account that I've given you is that we really, in spite of the fact that we have basileis, and even in this case an anax, we really don't have a proper monarchical tradition.

因此,从我给的这个简短且不充分的论述中,你们可以发现,尽管我们在这里提到了君主,甚至还有王,但这确实不是一个严格意义上的君主制

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