Book 12
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Furthermore, you discarded the Macedonian cloak, they tell me, for a Median doublet, and took to a tiara worn upright on your head, and expected Macedonians, free men, to bow down before you. And, most ridiculous thing of all, you aped the habits of your defeated foes! I won’t mention your other activities—how you locked up educated This happened to Lysimachus according to Justin, XV, 3, etc. Curtius, however, VIII, 1, 17 is sceptical. The scholiast on the following dialogue says this was the cause of the death of Callisthenes, but cf. Plutarch, Alexander, 56, 4, Arrian, Anabasis, IV, 14, 3. men along with lions, all your weddings, and your inordinate affection for Hephaestion. I’ve only heard of one thing I can praise; you kept your attentions away from Darius’ beautiful queen, Statira. and looked after his mother Sisygambis. and his daughters. He married one of these, Statira the younger, or Barsine. That was conduct befitting a king.
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Don’t you praise me for my adventurous spirit, father, and for being first man to leap into the fort of the Oxydracae, and for receiving so many wounds?
