Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata

When he was put on trial for his life [*](Together with Timotheus, for thinking it best not to fight at the Hellespont in 256 B.C. (Diodorus, xvi. 21).) he said to the informer, What are you trying to do, fellow ? At a time when war is all around us, you are persuading the State to deliberate about me instead of with me.

In reply to Harmodius, descendant of the Harmodius of early days, who twitted him about his lowly birth, he said, My family history begins with me, but yours ends with you. [*](Cf. De nobilitate, 21, in Moralia, vol. vii. p. 272 of Bernardakis’s edition.)

A certain speaker interrogated him in the Assembly: Who are you that you are so proud? Are you cavalryman or man-at-arms or archer or