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First Century author Plutarch in his life of Numa speaks of the ideal dynamic between a king and

his people as follows. For not only was the Roman people softened and charmed by the righteousness

and mildness of their king,

but also the cities around about, as if some cooling breeze or salubrious wind were wafted upon them

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