UT his
followers, who were grown rich, and consequently proud, longed to indulge
themselves in pleasure and idleness, and were weary of marches and
expeditions, and at last went on so far as to censure and speak ill of him.
All which at first he bore very patiently, saying, it became a king well to do
good to others, and be evil spoken of. Meantime, on the smallest occasions
that called for a show of kindness to his friends, there was every indication
on his part of tenderness and respect. Hearing Peucestes was bitten by a bear,
he wrote to him, that he took it unkindly he should send others notice of it,
and not make him acquainted with it; "But now," said he, "since it is so, let
me know how you do, and whether any of your companions forsook you when you
were in danger, that I may punish them." He sent Hephaestion, who was absent
about some business, word how while they were fighting for their diversion
with an ichneumon, Craterus was by chance run through both thighs with
Perdiccas's javelin. And upon Peucestes's recovery from a fit of sickness, he
sent a letter of thanks to his physician Alexippus. When Craterus was ill, he
saw a vision in his sleep, after which he offered sacrifices for his health,
and bade him to do so likewise. He wrote also to Pausanias, the physician, who
was about to purge Craterus with hellebore, partly out of an anxious concern
for him, and partly to give him a caution how he used that medicine. He was so
tender of his friends' reputation that he imprisoned Ephialtes and Cissus, who
brought him the first news of Harpalus's flight and withdrawal from his
service, as if they had falsely accused him.
Plutarch: ALEXANDER
UT his followers, who were grown rich, and consequently proud, longed to indulge themselves in pleasure and idleness, and were weary of marches and expeditions, and at last went on so far as to censure and speak ill of him. All which at first he bore very patiently, saying, it became a king well to do good to others, and be evil spoken of. Meantime, on the smallest occasions that called for a show of kindness to his friends, there was every indication on his part of tenderness and respect. Hearing Peucestes was bitten by a bear, he wrote to him, that he took it unkindly he should send others notice of it, and not make him acquainted with it; "But now," said he, "since it is so, let me know how you do, and whether any of your companions forsook you when you were in danger, that I may punish them." He sent Hephaestion, who was absent about some business, word how while they were fighting for their diversion with an ichneumon, Craterus was by chance run through both thighs with Perdiccas's javelin. And upon Peucestes's recovery from a fit of sickness, he sent a letter of thanks to his physician Alexippus. When Craterus was ill, he saw a vision in his sleep, after which he offered sacrifices for his health, and bade him to do so likewise. He wrote also to Pausanias, the physician, who was about to purge Craterus with hellebore, partly out of an anxious concern for him, and partly to give him a caution how he used that medicine. He was so tender of his friends' reputation that he imprisoned Ephialtes and Cissus, who brought him the first news of Harpalus's flight and withdrawal from his service, as if they had falsely accused him.
