Alexander

as the body of the Persian Empire was divided among the successors of Alexander.

the Olynthians by Philip, the Thebans by Alexander, and the Brutians, made public slaves by the Romans:

Arrian is justly commended for censuring the vengeance retorted upon the Persians by Alexander, at a time, when those, who had committed the original aggressions on the Greeks, had long been laid in their graves.

And Alexander at once sprang up to his arms, like a man possessed:

They say that once, when the flute-player Timotheus first gave a performance before King Alexander, he played in the king's own manner, with great skill and musicianship — no soft melody, nor a relaxed one, nor any of the kind that lead to ease and indolence, but, I believe, the very strain that is called the orthian, the air sacred to Athena.

Timotheus, at any rate, if, just as he knew how to render some martial strain, he had also understood a melody that could make the soul just and prudent and temperate and humane — driving it not toward arms alone, but toward peace and concord and the honouring of the gods and care for men — would have been worth everything to Alexander, to attend him and play for him, and not only when he sacrificed,

Alexander, Gaius, and Pompey — what are they beside Diogenes, Heraclitus, and Socrates?

Go on now, and tell me of Alexander and Philip and Demetrius of Phalerum.

and set before your eyes whole dramas and scenes of the same kind, all that you have known from your own experience or from the older histories — as the whole court of Hadrian, the whole court of Antoninus, the whole court of Philip, of Alexander, of Croesus;

After Darius and the Indians, Alexander is poor.

He who but lately was the lord, and that not without dispute, of an obscure corner, is sad on reaching the end of the earth at having to return through a world that is his own.

Bring forward the example of Alexander of Macedon, who ran Clitus, dearest and most faithful to him, through amid the feasting, and, when he understood the crime, wished to die, certainly ought to have.

"Menelaos," said he, "has two good friends among the goddesses, Hera of Argos, and Athena of Alalkomene, but they only sit still and look on, while Aphrodite keeps ever by Alexander's side to defend him in any danger;

If you dare send an arrow at Menelaos you will win honor and thanks [ kharis] from all the Trojans, and especially from prince Alexander - he would be the first to requite you very handsomely if he could see Menelaos mount his funeral pyre, slain by an arrow from your hand.

He it was that made the ships for Alexander, which were the beginning of all mischief, and brought evil alike both on the Trojans and on Alexander himself;

And if anyone is going to go there, let him seek out at Corydalla Alexander, a bishop from among the monks;

And hearing it, we shall at all events, if nothing else, do at least what Alexander did, and keep one of our ears uncorrupted in reserve for the one slandered.

So that you may not yourself say to us what Diogenes said to Alexander, that the distance from you to here is the same as from here to you.

For the man who now shouts, Down with Alexander!

This they accomplished on the 25th of Elaphebolion, before Demosthenes set out on the second embassy, the embassy for the ratification of the oaths (for this orator of ours, this man who shouts Down with Alexander!

And the wretched Lacedaemonians, who barely touched these acts at their beginning in connection with the seizure of the temple, they who once claimed the right to lead the Greeks, are now about to be sent to Alexander to serve as hostages, and to make an exhibition of their misfortunes —destined, themselves and their country, to suffer whatever may please him;

And Alexander the Macedonian, having overthrown this Darius, begins to reign in the years above set out.

The philosophers of the Indians say to Alexander the Macedonian:

For Alexander the Macedonian, having taken ten of the Indian gymnosophists who were thought the best and most concise in speech, set them problems, threatening to put to death the one who did not answer to the point, and bidding one, the eldest of them, to be the judge.

Far more powerful, far richer was he than Alexander, who then possessed all things;

1 To Alexander of Macedon, when as conqueror of the East he was lifting his thoughts above the human, the Corinthians sent envoys to offer their congratulations and presented him with the citizenship of their city.

1 Alexander was giving someone a city, that madman who could conceive nothing in his mind but the vast.

For he who grieves at another's adversities grieves also at another's prosperities, as Theophrastus, deploring the death of his companion Callisthenes, is vexed at the prosperous affairs of Alexander, and so says that Callisthenes fell in with a man of the highest power and the highest fortune, but ignorant of how it befitted him to use prosperity.

As we see King Alexander, who, when he had slain Clitus his friend, scarcely held his hands from himself;

But Diogenes, more freely, as a Cynic, to Alexander asking that he should say if he needed anything, \"For now, indeed,\" he said, \"a little out of the sun.

Is Aeschines Alexander’s hireling, or Alexander’s friend?

and only just now he spoke of the man who taunts me with the friendship of Alexander.

If you, Aeschines, can name any human being, Greek or barbarian, on whom yonder sun shines, who has escaped all injury from the domination, first of Philip, and today of Alexander, so be it:

ulterior et in orientem vergens victoriis Magni Alexandri lustrata est, usque in Arabicum sinum.

And now that well-known pretext of forcing nations into a higher state of civilization against their will, the pretext once monopolized by the Greeks and by Alexander the Great, is considered by all theologians, especially those of Spain, to be unjust and unholy.

For a great part of that sea near Morocco, which is in dispute, had already been navigated long before, and the sea as far east as the Arabian gulf has been made famous by the victories of Alexander the Great, as both Pliny and Mela tell us.

I will give you, from the very bosom of Aristotle, King Alexander, who ran Cleitus, most dear to him and reared along with him, through amid the feast—with his own hand, indeed—because he flattered too little and passed too slowly from a free Macedonian into Persian servitude.

How much more high-spirited was Alexander!

This I praise the more in Alexander because no one was so liable to anger;

For these have dared to deify men, recording Alexander the Macedonian as a thirteenth god, whom Babylon convicted as a corpse.

and Alexander wished to seem the son of Ammon and to be fashioned by the statue-makers with horns, eager to outrage the fair face of man with a horn.

and how, after writing that Alexander had sent envoys to him but that he had refused to see them, he was found behaving exactly like Alexander’s filibusters.

Again, there was Alexander of Thessaly.

Now the whole population of Boeotia took the Persian side, and men of Macedonia sent by Alexander safeguarded their towns, each in his appointed place;

When Alexander returned and told him what he had heard from the Athenians, Mardonius set forth from Thessaly and led his army with all zeal against Athens;

When Mardonius came to Athens, he sent to Salamis a certain Murychides, a man from Hellespont, bearing the same offer as Alexander the Macedonian had ferried across to the Athenians.

The thing to do, my friend, is not to use the name of Olympias and Alexander in the hope of harming some citizen.

it is only here that you hate Olympias so that you can ruin Euxenippus by alleging that he flatters her and the Macedonians.

Yet when you were prosecuted by Alexander of Oeon, you asked for ten advocates from the tribe Aegeis, and I was one of them, chosen by yourself.

How many better men, nevertheless, have you left in the lower world!

The same Aristotle as basely flatters Alexander, to be ruled by him, as Plato sells himself to Dionysius for his belly's sake.

While thus engaged he, also, was slain by Alexander, who posed as avenger of Polydorus and destroyer of the tyranny.

For she reported to her brothers that Alexander was plotting against them, and concealed them within the house for the entire day.

others, however, say that inasmuch as no children were being born to him of this woman, Alexander was sending to Thebes and trying to win as his wife the widow of Jason.

Philip will be largely in evidence, and the name of Philip’ s son Alexander is going to be mixed up in it.

Now I naturally have had no conversation with Alexander, because of his youth, but Philip I do praise now because of his auspicious words, and if in what he does toward us in the future he shall fulfil the promise of what he now says, he will make praise of him a safe and easy thing.

For, under the impression that he is hurting me with reference to the accounting which I am about to render for my service on the embassy, he says that when the other day he himself was describing the boy Alexander, telling how at a certain banquet of ours he played the cithara, reciting certain passages in which there were thrusts at another boy, and when he reported to the senate what he himself …

For shortly after the death of Amyntas, and of Alexander, the eldest of the brothers, while Perdiccas and Philip were still children, when their mother Eurydice had been betrayed by those who professed to be their friends, and when Pausanias was coming back to contend for the throne, an exile then, but favoured by opportunity and the support of many of the people, and bringing a Greek force with h …

By this very art, indeed, it is said that once, when he piped the Phrygian strain to Alexander, he made him spring up to arms in the midst of his dinner, and then brought him back again to his fellow-banqueters by relaxing the harmony.

I would not pass over the deed of Alexander, who, having taken captive the daughters of Darius, witnessed to be of wondrous beauty, did not even deign to look upon them, judging it shameful that he who had conquered men should be conquered by women.

Read the panegyrics, Torquatus — not of those who were praised by Homer, not of Cyrus, not of Agesilaus, not of Aristides or Themistocles, not of Philip or Alexander;

But afterward both Philip, who planned it, and Alexander, who waged it, brought this cause of war against the Persians, that he wished to punish them for the shrines of Greece;