Athenodorus

And that man is Athenodorus, or Simon, or Bianor, kings of Thrace, or any other man who may wish to lay you under obligation by restraining Charidemus when he is trying to act in opposition to you.

and it was at once foreseen that Athenodorus would come to the aid of the sons of Berisades, and Simon and Bianor to that of Amadocus, the former being related by marriage to Berisades and the two latter to Amadocus.

For neither Simon nor Bianor, both of whom had been admitted to your citizenship, and who were, apart from that, thoroughly well affected towards you, was likely to take the field against a general of yours while Athenodorus, an Athenian citizen by birthright, would never dream of doing so, nor would he incur the criminal charge set up by the decree, which would certainly be brought against those …

But Athenodorus, who was lately among you, whom Augustus respected — do you think, if he had known the city to be such, he would have preferred his sojourn here to that with him?

And he was so exceedingly ambitious that, even when Athenodorus the pancratiast was dying, who had been his friend from boyhood, he asked how many days were left of the contest.

For where Athenodorus and Callistratus, the one a private, the other an exile, have been able to found cities, surely we could gain possession of many such places if we so desired.

"Know that you are freed from all desires when you have come to the point of asking the god for nothing that you could not ask openly.

Athenodorus says that he would not even go to dinner with a man who would owe him nothing in return for it.

To my mind, dearest Serenus, Athenodorus seems to have given in to the times too much, to have retreated too soon.

and the impulse of men is not penned in cages as is that of lions and other beasts—men whose greatest deeds are done in retirement.