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FUNDANUS. For this reason I always strive to collect and to peruse, not only these sayings and deeds of the philosophers, who are said by fools to have no bile,That is, our no guts; Cf. Archilochus, Frag. 131, Bergk, and Capps’s note on Menander, Perikeiromene, 259. but even more those of kings and despots. There is, for instance, the remark of Antigonus Cf. Moralia, 182 c; Seneca, De Ira, iii. 22. 2. to his soldiers who were reviling him near his tent in the belief that he could not hear them: he merely thrust out his staff and cried, Good heavens! will you not go somewhere farther off to abuse me? And there is the case of Arcadion Cf. Athenaeus, vi. 249 c-d: Arcadion, while in flight from Macedonia, accidentally met Philip who asked him how long he was going to stay in exile. This is Arcadion’s reply. the Achaean who was always railing against Philip and advising flight Until one comes to men who know not PhilipA parody of Homer, Od., xi. 122; xxiii. 269.; when Arcadion later visited Macedonia on some chance or other, Philip’s friends thought that he should not be let off but punished. Yet Philip, when he met him, treated him kindly and sent him friendly presents and gifts; and later bade his friends inquire how Arcadion now spoke of him to the Greeks. When all testified that the fellow had become a wonderful eulogist of the king, Philip said, Then I am a better physician than you. So in Olympia Cf. Moralia, 143 f; 179 a with Nachstädt’s note ad loc. when Philip was being defamed, and some persons said that the Greeks should smart for it since they spoke evil of Philip though they were being well treated by him, Philip said, What will they do, then, if they are badly treated?
