Clitus
historical figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
in the texts
Tusculan Disputations
Friend of Alexander killed by him in anger
As we see King Alexander, who, when he had slain Clitus his friend, scarcely held his hands from himself;
Letters to Lucilius
Alexander's dearest and most faithful companion, killed by Alexander in a drunken rage.
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.