After the capture of the rock his friends were saying that he had surpassed Heracles in his deeds, but he remarked, ‘No, I do not feel that my deeds, with my position as commander, are to be weighed against one word of Heracles.’ 1 [p. 67]
1 Arrian, Anabasis, v. 26. 5, represents Alexander as boasting over the capture of the rock, which Heracles had failed to capture.
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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