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Timotheus was popularly thought to be a lucky general, and some who were jealous of him painted pictures of cities entering into a trap of their own accord while he was asleep. 1 Whereupon Timotheus said, ‘If I capture such cities as those while I am asleep, what do you think I shall do when I am awake ?’
1 Of the many repetitions of this story it may suffice to refer to Plutarch's Life of Sulla, chap. vi. (454 B); Moralia, 856 B; Aelian, Varia Historia, xiii. 43.
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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