It was only when he saw plainly that no city was going to give him its adhesion, and that time was slipping by, that he made up his mind that a blow must be struck, failing which, he had nothing to expect save a vast Ingloriousness, in place of his former fame.
"Hellenica"
Xenophon
No preacher could persuade a thief of the practical Ingloriousness of thieving, as Lotys could,-and a prison chaplain, remonstrating with an assassin after his crime, was not half as much use to the State as Lotys, who could induce such an one to resign his murderous intent altogether, before he had so much as possessed himself of the necessary weapon.
"Temporal Power"
Marie Corelli