Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata
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Chabrias used to say that those men commanded an army best who best knew what the enemy were about.
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When he was under indictment for treason along with Iphicrates,
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Iphicrates rebuked him because, while he was in jeopardy, he went to the gymnasium,
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and spent the usual time at his luncheon. His answer was,
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You may go unwashed and unfed, and I may have had my luncheon and a bath and rub-down, but you may rest assured that, if the Athenians reach any adverse decision regarding us, they will put us both to death.
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He was wont to say that an army of deer commanded by a lion is more to be feared than an army of lions commanded by a deer.
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