Cleitus
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
Cleitus the wise
in the texts
Orations
Companion of Alexander killed by him.
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.
On Anger
Close friend of Alexander, raised with him, killed by Alexander at a feast
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.