Key to Easy Latin Stories for beginners/Part I/XX
XX.A DISTINCTION WITHOUT A DIFFERENCE.
89.Alexander, king of Macedonia, questioned a captive pirate in these words: ‘By what right, pray, do you infest the sea?’ The pirate, fearing nothing, replied, ‘You and I use the same right: but I have one little ship; therefore I am called a pirate: but you are in command of great fleets and armies, so you are called a conqueror.’