Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata

Plutarch

Plutarch. Moralia, Vol. III. Babbitt, Frank Cole, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1931 (printing).

He blamed Pompey for abandoning the city,

and imitating Themistocles rather than Pericles, when his situation was not like that of Themistocles, but rather that of Pericles. [*](Cf. Plutarch’s Life of Pompey, chap. lxiii. (652 F); Cicero, Letters to Atticus, vii. 11. 3, and x. 8. 4.)