Regum et imperatorum apophthegmata

As he was disposing his army for battle against the barbarians he said he feared that they did not know the name of Iphicrates with which he was wont to strike terror to the hearts of his other foes. [*](Cf. Polyaenus, Strategemata, iii. 9. 25.)

When he was put on trial for his life [*](Together with Timotheus, for thinking it best not to fight at the Hellespont in 256 B.C. (Diodorus, xvi. 21).) he said to the informer, What are you trying to do, fellow ? At a time when war is all around us, you are persuading the State to deliberate about me instead of with me.

In reply to Harmodius, descendant of the Harmodius of early days, who twitted him about his lowly birth, he said, My family history begins with me, but yours ends with you. [*](Cf. De nobilitate, 21, in Moralia, vol. vii. p. 272 of Bernardakis’s edition.)

A certain speaker interrogated him in the Assembly: Who are you that you are so proud? Are you cavalryman or man-at-arms or archer or

Timotheus was popularly thought to be a lucky general, and some who were jealous of him painted pictures of cities entering into a trap of their own accord while he was asleep. [*](Of the many repetitions of this story it may suffice to refer to Plutarch’s Life of Sulla, chap. vi. (454 B); Moralia, 856 B; Aelian, Varia Historia, xiii. 43.) Whereupon Timotheus said, If I capture such cities as those while I am asleep, what do you think I shall do when I am awake ?

When one [*](Chares, according to Plutarch in his Life of Pelopidas, chap. ii. (278 D).) of the foolhardy generals was exhibiting to the Athenians a wound he had received, Timotheus said, But I was ashamed when, at the time I was commanding, you in Samos, [*](In 366 B.C.) a missile from a catapult fell near me.