Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata

Plutarch

Plutarch. Moralia, Vol. III. Babbitt, Frank Cole, translator. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann Ltd., 1931 (printing).

Once on a campaign he slept for an unusually long time, and later, when he arose, he said, I slept safely, for Antipater was awake. [*](Cf. Athenaeus, p. 435 D.)

On another occasion when he was asleep in the

daytime, and the Greeks who had gathered at his doors were indignant and complaining, Parmenio said,Do not be astonished that Philip is asleep now; for while you were asleep he was awake. [*](Something remotely like this is told of ALexander in Plutarch’s Life of Alexander, chap. xxxi. (683 E).)