… their enemies. The author cited the example of the Ancient Greek ruler Hieron of Syracruse, whose enemy smelt his stinking breath and mocked him, which led him to seek a remedy. Hieron’s close acquaintances, by contrast, had put up with … and root of enmity, of course, came in a religious context: namely with the devil, who was the literal ‘enemy of mankind’. 3 . M. Tullius Cicero, Laelius on Friendship, in Cicero : De Senectute De Amicitia De Divinatione. With an English … Harvard University Press, 1923), p. 90. 4 . M. B., The Triall of True Friendship (1596), sig. E2v. 5 . Rodney Barker, Making Enemies (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), pp. ix, 1. In the centuries before our period, the relationship …