最能讨君主欢心的事物： 马基雅维里这篇“题献”的开场白让人想起《致尼科洛》里的经典致辞，由古希腊修辞学家埃索克里特斯所写。

willmost please him: the opening lines of Machiavelli’sdedication recall the classical oration ToNicoles composed by the Greek rhetorician Isocrates.

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古希腊和古罗马的人们给上帝的祭品，活着以色列为君主焚烧祭品之时，献身者也是白色。

When people in ancient Greece and Rome made offerings to the celestial gods, or when Israel burnt offerings to the Lord, the victims that they dedicated were always white.

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Consider the following passage that he writes: "As to rebellion against monarchy, one of the most frequent causes is the reading of the books of policy and history of the ancient Greeks and Romans.

他曾写道：,反抗君主统治的叛乱，最主要的原因是,古希腊，罗马关于政治和历史的书籍,在民间的传播。

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