Sublime

but you must fear, His greatness weigh'd, his will is not his own; For he himself is subject to his birth:

Bernician kings of the mid-seventh century were wont to install their sons as equivalent subreguli in Deira, partly as a policy of devolved dynastic government, partly as training and partly so that they could keep an eye on potential rivals coming up on the rails.

In the late first or early second century CE, the satiric poet ‘Juvenal’ – Decimus Junius Juvenalis – who loved to pour scorn on Roman pretensions, lambasted the snobbery that was another side of life at Rome, and he ridiculed those aristocrats who boasted of a family tree going back centuries. He ends one of his poems with a sideswipe at Rome’s

He will place himself outside the jurisdiction of fortune: he will moderate prosperity, minimize adversity, and scorn those things that others admire. 4 Greatness of spirit despises great wealth; it prefers moderate means to abundance.

Gaius Julius Zoilos

Zafar was the last Mughal Emperor, and the descendant of the great world-conquerors Genghis Khan and Timur.