previous next

When one 1 of the foolhardy generals was exhibiting to the Athenians a wound he had received, Timotheus said, ‘But I was ashamed when, at the time I was commanding, you in Samos, 2 a missile from a catapult fell near me.’

1 Chares, according to Plutarch in his Life of Pelopidas, chap. ii. (278 D).

2 In 366 B.C.

load focus Greek (Gregorius N. Bernardakis, 1889)
load focus Greek (Frank Cole Babbitt, 1931)
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: