The Game of Chess

...human voice The Brazen Bull was designed with a system of tubes and stops that converted the screams of the victim inside into the sound of a bellowing bull.. And for this, one should not have mercy on him. And when he showed the work to the King, the King spoke to him: "Since you are more bitter and clever than I, you shall be the first to suffer the pain of your own evil mind and invention." And he thrust him into the bull and burned him within it, for he had deserved it. Now it has come to pass that nothing is more just than for the one who devises a death to die by his own invention. Thus spoke Ovid original: "Ouidius." This refers to Ovid's Ars Amatoria, where he writes: "There is no law more just than that the architects of death should perish by their own contrivance.". Fourthly, the king should be just. For kingdoms without justice are dens of thieves dens of thieves original: "mordwinckel," literally "murder-corners" or "assassination nooks." This is a vernacular rendering of Saint Augustine’s famous rhetorical question: "If justice is removed, what are kingdoms but great bands of robbers?", and regarding this Saint Augustine says in the book The City of God original: "von der stat gotte." Augustine’s De Civitate Dei was a cornerstone of medieval political philosophy. that there was a pirate pirate original: "rauber des meres," literally "robber of the sea." named Diomedes. He robbed with a single galley A low, flat ship propelled by oars, often used by pirates in the Mediterranean. whoever sailed upon the sea or worked there, and he did this for many years. And it happened that King Alexander Alexander the Great (356–323 BC). ordered this same robber to be captured, and he was indeed caught and brought before the king. Then the king asked him why he robbed the people upon the sea. To this, he answered the king and said, "Why do you rob... The story usually concludes with the pirate pointing out that because he does it with one small ship, he is called a robber, while Alexander, doing it with a great navy, is called an emperor.