Antiphates, the handsome youth of whom Themistocles was enamoured, avoided him in the earlier days, and looked down upon him, but, after Themistocles had acquired great repute and power, kept coming to him and trying to flatter him. ‘My boy,’ said Themistocles, ‘it has taken time, but now we have both come to have sense.’ 1
1 Cf. Plutarch's Life of Themistocles, chap. xviii. (121 A).