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).