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Memnon, who was waging war against Alexander on the side of King Darius, 1 when one of his mercenary soldiers said many libellous and indecent things of Alexander, struck the man with his spear, saying, ‘I pay you to fight Alexander, not to malign him.’
1 Circa 333 B.C.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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