Of his foremost and most influential friends he seems to have honoured Crateras most and to have loved Hephaestion best. ‘For,’ said he, ‘Crateras is fond of the king, but Hephaestion is fond of Alexander.’ 1
1 Cf. Plutarch's Life of Alexander, chap. xlvii. (691 F), and Diodorus, xvii. 114.
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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