Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can see the difference between a Greek king and a barbarian tyrant, so do not expect to suffer any harm from me. A king does not kill messengers.

“A tomb now suffices him for whom the world was not enough.[Alexander's tombston…”

“Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony …”

“If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic, to …”

“An army of sheep led by a lion is better than an army of lions led by a sheep.”