Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata

Plutarch

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

To the man who reported that Caesar’s friends were downcast he retorted, You speak as if they were Caesar’s foes ! [*](Cf. Plutarch’s Life of Cicero, chap. xxxviii. (880 B).)