[Sca-cooks] OT: Let the people hate, as long as they also fear

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> Let the people hate, as long as they also fear.

I have an apron that says this, with attributions...
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        "Let them hate me, so long as they fear me."
                Gaius Lucius Germanicus Caligula, third emperor of Rome
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The original passage is: "Oderint, dum metuant" (May they hate, if they
only/as long as they fear). It is reported by Sueton in his chapter on
Caligula, see:

http://www.gmu.edu/departments/fld/CLASSICS/suet.cal.html#30

Thomas (the other one)