Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata

Antipater, hearing of the death of Parmenio at the hands of Alexander, said, If Parmenio plotted against Alexander, who is to be trusted ? And if he did not, what is to be done ?

Of Demades the orator, who had already become an old man, he said that he was like an animal which had been eaten at a sacrificial feast; there was left only the belly and the tongue. [*](Cf. Moralia, 525 C and Plutarch’s Life of Phocion, chap. i. (741 E). Pytheas (quoted in Athenaeus, 44 F) speaks of Demades’ protruding belly and ranting tongue.)