Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata

When a young man, son of a brave father, but not himself having any reputation for being a good soldier, suggested the propriety of his receiving his father’s emoluments, Antigonus said, My boy, I give pay and presents for the excellence of a man, not for the excellence of his father.

When Zeno of Citium died, whom he admired most among the philosophers, he said that the audience to hear of his exploits had been taken away. [*](Cf. Diogenes Laertius, vii. 15.)