life. Nero shows them mercy in response.514 Notice the roles played here: the people give their lives for the ruler who does not love them, but who extends mercy. Aristotle argued similarly that the ruler is not expected to love those he rules, while those whom he rules are to love him.515 Lee-Barnewall concludes that a common way the body/head analogy worked was to stress the head as “primary leader and source of provision for the body.”516 The expectation would be that the body sacrifices itself