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When all the Athenians who had been taken [p. 45] captive at Chaeroneia were set free by him without ransom, 1 but asked for the return of their clothing and bedding besides, and complained against the Macedonians, Philip laughed and said to his men, ‘Does it not seem to you that the Athenians think they have been beaten by us in a game of knucklebones ?’
1 Cf. Polybius, v. 10, and Diodorus, xvi. 87.
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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