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FUNDANUS. For anger does not always have great and powerful beginnings; on the contrary, even a jest, a playful word, a burst of laughter or a nod on the part of somebody, and many things of the kind, rouse many persons to anger; just as Helen, by thus addressing her niece, Electra, virgin for so long a time, provoked her to reply, Too late you’re wise; but once you left your home Disgraced.Euripides, Orestes, 72, 99. And so was Alexander provoked by Callisthenes, Cf. Moralia, 623 f - 624 a; Athenaeus, x. 434 d. who said, when the great bowl was going its rounds, I do not care to have a drink of Alexander and then have to call in Asclepius. A jibe at Alexander’s assumed divinity, Alexander taking the place of Dionysus, the wine god, until the physician god, Asclepius, would have to be called in; on the authenticity of the story see Macurdy, Jour. Hell. Stud., 1. (1930), 294-297.
