Antipater

And afterwards Philip said that, of all who had arrived at his court, Xenocrates was the only man whom he could not bribe.

Again, he would not accept the present sent him by Antipater, as Myronianus attests in his Parallels.

When he learnt that Antipater committed suicide by drinking a potion, he was greatly moved by the constancy with which he met his end, and exclaimed, Give it then to me also.

Chares says this wound was given him by Dareius, with whom he had a hand-to-hand combat, but Alexander, in a letter to Antipater about the battle, did not say who it was that gave him the wound;

These actions made Alexander an object of fear to many of his friends, and particularly to Antipater, who sent secretly to the Aetolians and entered into an alliance with them.

Again, he wrote to Antipater bidding him keep guards about his person, since plots were being laid against him.

For this reason, even so, I wish, setting all else aside, to come to your reverend self, both to enjoy the good things in you, and to set in good order, through your uprightness, the affairs of my own household.

To Antipater

Now above all I think I feel the loss which I endure through being ill, when, with such a man as you governing our country, I am compelled to be absent because of the care of my body. For a whole month now I have been waiting upon the treatment of the naturally hot waters, as though I were to gain some benefit from it. But it seems I am labouring in vain in the wilderness, or even appearing to be …

And yet you bring up that worn and oft-rejected argument, not as Antipater did, but, as you say, more pointedly;

What of the two leaders, as it were, of the dialecticians, Antipater and Archidemus, most thorny men — do they not dissent in many matters?

But when Antipater demanded this same thing, saying that for him who affirmed that nothing could be perceived it was consistent nevertheless to say that this one thing could be perceived, that other things could not, Carneades resisted more acutely.

And finally he called Antipater to the platform, and proceeded to ask him a certain question—he had previously told him what he gas going to ask, and had instructed him what he was to answer, to the injury of the state.

Meanwhile Alexander had withdrawn to the uttermost regions of the North, almost beyond the borders of the inhabited world, and Antipater was slow in collecting an army;

In which the most noble philosophers spent their lives — Xenocrates, Crantor, Arcesilaus, Lacydes, Aristotle, Theophrastus, Zeno, Cleanthes, Chrysippus, Antipater, Carneades, Clitomachus, Philo, Antiochus, Panaetius, Posidonius, and innumerable others, who, once having gone out, never returned home.

whose blindness, when little women lamented, \"What are you doing?

And Antipater, his pupil, supposes the end to lie in continually and inviolably choosing the things according to nature and rejecting the things contrary to nature.

And Antipater the Stoic, having written three books on the point that, according to Plato, the noble alone is good, shows that, according to him too, virtue is sufficient for happiness, and sets down many other doctrines in accord with the Stoics.

and he killed Cleitus the wise, and Philotas the handsome, and the aged Parmenion, and his teacher Callisthenes, and he had a mind to kill Aristotle, and plotted against Antipater.

And here I say that—even if some reader of this advice, of the very exact sort, should blame me—one must not be inexperienced even in the more recent men of a little before our time;

Demades, indeed, was himself but wreckage of the state, since his life and administration were so outrageous that Antipater said of him, when he was now grown old, that he was like a victim when the sacrifice was over—nothing left but tongue and guts.

At any rate, Duris writes that after Alexander had become great and had conquered Dareius, he dropped from his letters the word of salutation, chairein, except whenever he was writing to Phocion;

Demades the orator, who was powerful at Athens because he conducted affairs so as to please Antipater and the Macedonians, and was forced to propose and favour many measures which were at variance with the dignity and character of the city, used to say that he was excusable because he was in command of a shipwrecked state.

Outwardly, said he, Antipater wears white clothes, but within he is all purple.

Antipater, hearing that Parmenio was slain by Alexander, said:

Antipater said, of the two friends he had at Athens, he could never persuade Phocion to accept a present, nor could he ever satisfy Demades with presents.

'Poverty is named not by possession, but by removal, or, as the ancients said, by deprivation.

This Antipater assigns to poverty;

Antipater too, among the great authorities of this school, says that he assigns something to externals, but a very little.

But Carneades, ignorant of no part of philosophy, and, as I learned from those who had heard him and especially from the Epicurean Zeno, who, though he dissented from him very greatly, yet admired him beyond all others, was of an incredible faculty and … " But why does Mnesarchus fret, why does Antipater fight it out with Carneades in so many volumes?

in some of which—as in the poet Antipater, as in those born on the day of the winter solstice, as in brothers who fall ill at the same time, as in the case of the urine, as of the fingernails, and the rest of that kind—the sympathy of nature prevails, which I do not abolish, yet there is no force of fate;

Apollonides of Halicarnassus deposes that to his knowledge Antipater, a Citian by birth, lent money to Hyblesius for a voyage to Pontus on the ship of which Hyblesius was in command, and on the freight to Pontus, and that he was himself part-owner of the ship with Hyblesius;

(Antipater was the lender’s name;

These men, taking along with them the dispatch from Antipater that came to Corinth addressed to Deinarchus, have filled all the cities in the Peloponnesus with such reports as I pray that the gods may turn back upon their own heads.

Antipater and Parmenio, though they were in the service of a hard taskmaster, and though they were not likely to fall in with you again, nevertheless claimed exemption from serving as the agents of your beguilement;

He thus prevented the inroad of Antipater into Greece, and overtaking him in that vicinity, defeated him in battle and shut him into Lamia, which he then besieged.

Although it is dangerous for us here in Athens to send a letter to Macedonia, not only now when we are at war with you, but even in time of peace, nevertheless I have decided to write to you concerning Diodotus, as I think it only right to esteem highly all those who have been my pupils and who have shown themselves worthy disciples, and not the least among them this man both because of his devoti …

Similarly, while he longed to obtain the honors it is yours to bestow, yet he did not expect to attain them;

But I think that Diodotus himself will best induce you to take an interest in him.

and Alexander actually went so far as to jest when he heard of Antipater’s battle with Agis, saying:

Archidamus had an elder son Agis, and a younger son Eudamidas, who, after Agis was slain by Antipater at Megalopolis leaving no issue, became king;

Therefore, what Phocion said to Antipater, who demanded from him some dishonourable service, Thou canst not have Phocion as thy friend and at the same time thy flatterer, this, or something akin to this, must be said to the multitude:

When Agis was beaten and Antipater demanded fifty boys for hostages, Eteocles, one of the then Ephors, answered:

And indeed they say that Antipater of Tarsus, when he was in like manner near his end and was enumerating the blessings of his life, did not forget to mention his prosperous voyage from home to Athens, just as though he thought that every gift of a benevolent Fortune called for great gratitude, and kept it to the last in his memory, which is the most secure storehouse of blessings for a man.

On the seventh of this month they were worsted by Antipater in the battle of Crannon, and utterly undone;