29.3
When all were astonished because, after he had grown old, he handled matters with mildness and gentleness, he said, Time was when I craved power, but now I crave repute and goodwill among men.
29.4
To his son Philip, who inquired in the presence of numerous persons, When are we going to break camp ? he said, What are you afraid of? That you alone may not hear the bugle ? Cf. Moralia, 506 C; Plutarch’s Life of Demetrius, chap. xxviii. (902 C), when the remark is addressed to Demetrius. That same remark is attributed to Crassus by Frontinus, Strategemata, i. 1. 13.
29.5
When the young man was determined to take up his quarters at the house of a widow who had three handsome daughters, he called the quartermaster and said, Will you not get my son out of his crowded quarters ? Repeated by Plutarch in his Life of Demetrius, chap. xxiii. (899 C), and more fully by Frontinus, Strategemata, iv. 1. 10.
29.6
He suffered a long illness, and when he had recovered his strength he said, ’twas nothing so very bad; for the illness has reminded us not to feel too proud, since we are but mortal Attributed to Alexander by Stobaeus, Florilegium, xxi. 15.
29.7
When Hermodotus in his poems wrote of him as The Offspring of the Sun, he said, The slave who attends to my chamber-pot is not conscious of that! Cf. Moralia, 360 C.
29.8
When somebody remarked that all things are honourable and righteous for kings, he said, Yes indeed, for kings of the barbarians; but for me only the honourable things are honourable and the righteous righteous.
29.9
When Marsyas his brother had a lawsuit, and claimed the right to have the trial held at his house, Antigonus said, It shall be in the Forum and with everybody listening to see whether we do any injustice.
