...lotsa parallels to ep's duce,  perhaps even clearer than
plato-dionysius,  milton's lord protector (who messed about
in erin in world-historical criminal fashion with the best ot them)
...seems a kinda moral tragedy exclusive to platonists?

all this is sadly too true...
yet, trouble with the morally superior diss'rs is that there frame of
reference is too clearly the same old petty bourgeois idealism