Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata

Lysimachus was overpowered by Dromichaetas in Thrace, and because of thirst surrendered himself and his army [*](In 292 B.C.); and when he drank after he had been made a prisoner, he said, My God, for what a little pleasure have I made myself a slave from being a king ! [*](The story is repeated with slight variations in Moralia, 126 E and 555 D; the capture of Lysimachus is recorded in Plutarch’s Life of Demetrius, chap. xxxix. (908 B); Polyaenus, Strategemata, vii. 25; Diodorus, xxi. 12.)

To Philippides the comic poet who was his friend and intimate he said, What of mine shall I share