Capítulo 46
[46.1] 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 ?
[46.2] 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.
[46.3] When the prominent speakers brought forward Chares, and insisted that the general of the Athenians ought to be a man like him, Timotheus said, Not the general, but the man who carries the general’s bedding! Cf. Moralia, 788 D.