Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata
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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.
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Whereupon Timotheus said,
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If I capture such cities as those while I am asleep, what do you think I shall do when I am awake ?
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When one
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of the foolhardy generals was exhibiting to the Athenians a wound he had received, Timotheus said,
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But I was ashamed when, at the time I was commanding, you in Samos, In 366 B.C. a missile from a catapult fell near me.
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When the prominent speakers brought forward Chares, and insisted that the general of the Athenians ought to be a man like him, Timotheus said,
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Not the general, but the man who carries the general’s bedding!
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