Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata

When the young man was determined to take up his quarters at the house of a widow who had three handsome daughters, he called the quartermaster and said, Will you not get my son out of his crowded quarters ? [*](Repeated by Plutarch in his Life of Demetrius, chap. xxiii. (899 C), and more fully by Frontinus), Strategemata, iv. 1. 10.

He suffered a long illness, and when he had recovered his strength he said, ’twas nothing so very bad; for the illness has reminded us not to feel too proud, since we are but mortal [*](Attributed to Alexander by Stobaeus, Florilegium, xxi. 15.)