64. And for this reason he changes the imperial household, first selecting some individuals for death,⁴¹ and banishing others, not as being well disposed to the great emperor (their late master), but as being yet better disposed towards that Greater One, and thereby unserviceable to himself on both accounts. The soldiery he gains over partly by his own efforts, partly through their officers, an engine he considered most to be relied on----part of them being vanquished by the hope of promotion, part seduced by their own simplicity, and knowing no other law than the will of the emperor.

ΞΔʹ. Καὶ διὰ τοῦτο μεταποιεῖ μὲν τὰ βασίλεια, τοὺς μὲν θανάτῳ προϋπεξαγαγὼν πρότερον, τοὺς δὲ παρωσάμενος: οὐχ ὡς εὔνους τῷ μεγάλῳ βασιλεῖ μόνον, ἀλλὰ καὶ ὡς εὐνουστέρους τῷ μείζονι, καὶ ἀλυσιτελεῖς αὐτῷ κατ' ἀμφότερα: ὑποποιεῖται δὲ τὸ στρατιωτικὸν, τὸ μὲν δι' ἑαυτοῦ, τὸ δὲ διὰ τῶν ἐν τέλει, ὃ καὶ μᾶλλον εὔπιστον ὑπελάμβανε, τὸ μὲν τῶν τιμῶν ἡττώμενον, τὸ δὲ ἁπλότητι παρασυρόμενον, καὶ νόμον ἕνα γινῶσκον μόνον, τὴν τοῦ βασιλέως βούλησιν.