Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata

Plutarch

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

He said that he felt very grateful to the popular leaders of the Athenians, because by maligning him they made him better both in speech and in character, For I try both by my words and by my deeds to prove that they are liars.

When all the Athenians who had been taken

captive at Chaeroneia were set free by him without ransom, [*](Cf. Polybius, v. 10, and Diodorus, xvi. 87.) but asked for the return of their clothing and bedding besides, and complained against the Macedonians, Philip laughed and said to his men, Does it not seem to you that the Athenians think they have been beaten by us in a game of knucklebones ?