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iii. in Verrem* Digitized by LjOOQIC ALEXANiyER. 197 ■ •civing tKe king's averiion ta hkn, pepcatad this Vcrfe tw# Of three times at parting : Patroclus, thy fuperior it no more* ft was not, therefore/, without reafon, that Ariftotle faitf of CalliUhenes, •* His eloquence, indeed, is great, but •* he wants common fen fe." He not only refufed, witH all the firmnefs of a philofopheri to* pay his refpedls t9 Alexander by proftration, but ftood forth fingly, and ut- tered in public many grievances ...which the beft and oldell of the Macedonians durft not reiieft* upon but in fecret, though they were as muchdifpleafed'at them as he. By preventing- the proftratiom he faved the Greeks, indeed, from a great dilhonour; and Alexander from a greater ; but he ruined himfelf; becaufe his manner was fuch, that he feemed. rather deiirous to compel than to pcrfuade. ^ Chares ofMitylene tells us, that Alexander, at one of bis entertainments, after he had drank, reached the cup to one of his friends..
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