71.21
Learning that his shield-bearer had received a great deal of money from a man who had been taken captive in the war, he said to him, Give me back my shield, and buy yourself a tavern in which to spend the rest of your days; for you will no longer be willing to face danger as before, now that you have become one of the rich and prosperous. Cf. Aelian, Varia Historia, xi. 9; Themistius, Oration, vii., 88 C.
71.22
Being asked whether he regarded himself or Chabrias or Iphicrates as the better general, he said, It is hard to decide while we are alive.