Book 9
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For his fortitude and contentment in life he was called the Happy Man. He had, too, the capacity of bringing anyone to reason in the easiest possible way. At all events he succeeded in diverting Alexander when he had begun to think himself a god; for, seeing blood running from a wound he had sustained, he pointed to him with his finger and said, See, there is blood and not Ichor which courses in the veins of the blessed gods.Il. v. 340. Plutarch reports this as spoken by Alexander to his friends.Vit. Alex. c. 28. Moreover, on another occasion, when Anaxarchus was drinking Alexander’s health, he held up his goblet and said: One of the gods shall fall by the stroke of mortal man.Euripides, Orestes, 271.
Chapter 11. PYRRHO (c. 360-270 b.c.)
