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When he was besieging a city, some of the people on the wall reviled him, saying, ‘Potter, how are you going to pay your soldiers' wages ? ’ But he, unruffled and smiling, said, ‘If I take this town.’ And after he had taken it by storm he sold the captives as slaves, and said, ‘If you revile me again, what I have to say will be said to your masters.’ 1 [p. 39]
1 Cf. Moralia, 458 F, where, however, the last remark is attributed to Antigonus the ‘One-eyed.’
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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