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‘58. Ἐπικράτης δ᾽ ὁ Ἀθηναῖος πρὸς βασιλέα πρεσβεύσας,
ὥς φησιν Ἡγήσανδρος, καὶ πολλὰ δῶρα παρ᾽ ἐκείνου λαβὼν οὐκ ᾐσχύνετο κολακεύων οὕτως φανερῶς καὶ τολμηρῶς τὸν βασιλέα ὡς καὶ εἰπεῖν δεῖν κατ᾽ ἐνιαυτὸν οὐκ ἐννέα ἄρχοντας, ἀλλ᾽ ἐννέα πρέσβεις αἱρεῖσθαι πρὸς βασιλέα, θαυμάζω δὲ ἔγωγε τῶν Ἀθηναίων πῶς τοῦτον μὲν ἄκριτον εἴασαν, Δημάδην δὲ δέκα ταλάντοις ἐζημίωσαν ὅτι
[p. 132] θεὸν εἰσηγήσατο Ἀλέξανδρον, καὶ Τιμαγόραν δ᾽ ἀπέκτειναν ὅτι πρεσβεύων ὡς βασιλέα προσεκύνησεν
αὐτόν. Τίμων ὁ Φλιάσιος ἐν τῷ τρίτῳ τῶν σίλλων Ἀρίστωνά φησι τὸν Χῖον, Ζήνωνος δὲ τοῦ Κιτιέως γνώριμον, κόλακα γενέσθαι Περσαίου τοῦ φιλοσόφου, ὅτι ἦν ἑταῖρος Ἀντιγόνου τοῦ βασιλέως. Φύλαρχος δὲ ἐν σ᾽ἱστοριῶν’ Νικησίαν φησὶ τὸν Ἀλεξάνδρου κόλακα θεασάμενον τὸν βασιλέα σπαρασσόμενον ὑφ᾽ οὗ εἰλήφει φαρμάκου εἰπεῖν ‘ὦ βασιλεῦ, τί δεῖ ποιεῖν ἡμᾶς, ὅτε καὶ ὑμεῖς οἱ θεοὶ τοιαῦτα πάσχετε;’ καὶ τὸν Ἀλέξανδρον μόλις ἀναβλέψαντα, ‘ποῖοι θεοί;’ φῆσαι, ‘φοβοῦμαι
μή τι θεοῖσιν ἐχθροί.’ ἐν δὲ τῇ ὀγδόῃ καὶ εἰκοστῇ ὁ αὐτὸς Φύλαρχος Ἀντιγόνου τοῦ κληθέντος Ἐπιτρόπου τοὺς Λακεδαιμονίους ἑλόντος κόλακα γενέσθαι Ἀπολλοφάνη τὸν εἰπόντα τὴν Ἀντιγόνου τύχην ἀλεξανδρίζειν.
Athenaeus. The Deipnosophists. with an English Translation by. Charles Burton Gulick. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1927. 1.
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