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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Sulla80, post: 8168204, member: 99456&quot;]definitely interesting in my view - I do enjoy the story of Lysimachus and the Lion.&nbsp; It certainly doesn&#039;t portray Alexander in good light.</p><p><br /></p><p><i><font size="4">&quot;For when Alexander the Great, in his anger, had pretended that Callisthenes the philosopher, for his opposition to the Persian mode of doing obeisance, was concerned in a plot that had been formed against him, 4 and, by cruelly mangling all his limbs, and cutting off his ears, nose, and lips, had rendered him a shocking and miserable spectacle, and had had him carried about, also, shut up in a cage with a dog, for a terror to others, Lysimachus, who was accustomed to listen to Callisthenes, and to receive precepts of virtue from him, took pity on so great a man, undergoing punishment, not for any crime, but for freedom of speech, and furnished him with poison to relieve him from his misery. At this act Alexander was so displeased, that he ordered Lysimachus to be exposed to a fierce lion; but when the beast, furious at the sight of him, had made a spring towards him, Lysimachus plunged his hand, wrapped in his cloak, into the lion&#039;s mouth, and, seizing fast hold of his tongue, killed him.&quot;</font></i></p><p>-Justinus, <a href="http://www.attalus.org/translate/justin1.html#15.1" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.attalus.org/translate/justin1.html#15.1" rel="nofollow">Epitome of Pompeius Trogus&#039; Philippic Histories, 15.3</a>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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