Craterus

And to the young Prince Alexander, too, I believe.

Craterus was a general in Alexander's army.

He's dead, Sheridan.

Six months married and he died.

Hopefully I'm not fucking dying.

On the side where Krateros was, there was absolute chaos, lots of activity.

They were making it look as though they were about to make a move very soon.

So Porus had problems.

Porus heard that his son was killed.

Now this understandably caused him to have a small little breakdown.

Our sources say that for a moment he was indecisive, but he snapped out of it just in time to see that Krateros was getting ready to cross and to attack from the opposite bank.

At the same time, he was informed that the king was with the force that had already crossed the river.

End of footnote.

When Craterus entreated him to come and visit him, he said: I would rather lick up salt at Athens than enjoy a luxurious table with Craterus.

On one occasion he met Anaximenes the orator, who was a fat man, and thus accosted him: Pray give us who are poor some of your belly; for by doing so you will be relieved yourself, and you will assist us.

And once, when he was discussing some point, Diogenes held up a piece of salt fish and drew off the attention of his hearers; and as Anaximenes was indignant at this, he said: See, one pennyworth of salt fish has put an end to the lecture of Anaximenes! Being once reproached for eating in the market-place, he made answer: I did; for it was in the market-place that I was hungry.

And to the young Prince Alexander, too, I believe.

Craterus was a general in Alexander's army.

He's dead, Cheritone.

Six months married and he died.

But the cause of Greece was speedily crushed, and in the month of Metageitnion the battle at Crannon took place, in that of Boedromion the Macedonian garrison entered Munychia, and in that of Pyanepsion Demosthenes died in the following manner.

When Antipater and Craterus were reported to be advancing upon Athens, Demosthenes and his associates succeeded in escaping by stealth from the city, and the people, on motion of Demades, passed sentence of death upon them.

Since they had dispersed themselves to different places, Antipater sent his soldiers about to arrest them, under the command of Archias the so-called exile-hunter.

This man was a native of Thurii, and the story goes that he was once a tragic actor; indeed it is recorded that Polus of Aegina, the best actor of his time, was a pupil of his.

Alexander therefore chided them in gentle and reasonable fashion.

He was amazed, he said, that after they had undergone so many and so great contests, they did not remember that those who conquer by toil sleep more sweetly than those who are conquered by their toil, and did not see from a comparison of their own lives with those of the Persians that it is a very servile thing to be luxurious, but a very royal thing to toil.

"And yet," said he, "how can a man take care of his own horse or furbish up his spear and helmet if he is unaccustomed to using his hands on his own dear person? Know ye not," said he, "that the end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered?" Accordingly, he exerted himself yet more strenuously in military and hunting expeditions, suffering distress and risking his life, so that a Spartan ambassador who came up with him as he was bringing down a great lion said, "Nobly indeed, Alexander, hast thou struggled with the lion to see which should be king." This hunting scene Craterus dedicated at Delphi with bronze figures of the lion, the dogs, the king engaged with the lion, and himself coming to his assistance.

Some of the figures were molded by Lysippus and some by Leochares.

However, he did not enjoy his native city for long after his return from exile; but the cause of Greece was speedily crushed, and in the month of Metageitnion the battle at Crannon took place, in that of Boedromion the Macedonian garrison entered Munychia, and in that of Pyanepsion Demosthenes died in the following manner.

When Antipater and Craterus were reported to be advancing upon Athens, Demosthenes and his associates succeeded in escaping by stealth from the city, and the people, on motion of Demades, passed sentence of death upon them.

Since they had dispersed themselves to different places, Antipater sent his soldiers about to arrest them, under the command of Archeus, the so-called exile-hunter.

This man was a native of Thurii, and the story goes that he was once a tragic actor; indeed it is recorded that Polus of Aegina, the best actor of his time, was a pupil of his.

And yet, said he, how can a man take care of his own horse or furbish up his spear and helmet if he is unaccustomed to using his hands on his own dear person? Know ye not, said he, that the end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered? Accordingly he exerted himself yet more strenuously in military and hunting expeditions, suffering distress and risking his life.

So that a Spartan ambassador who came up with him as he was bringing down a great lion said, Nobly indeed, Alexander, hast thou struggled with the lion to see which should be king.

This hunting scene Craterus dedicated at Delphi with bronze figures of the lion, the dogs, the king engaged with the lion, and himself coming to his assistance.

Some of the figures were moulded by Lysippus and some by Leocares.

However, he did not enjoy his native city for long after his return from exile, but the cause of the Greeks was speedily crushed, and in the month of Metageitnian the battle at Crannon took place, in that of Boeodramian the Macedonian garrison entered Mytia, and in that of Pinepsian Demosthenes died in the following manner.

When Antipater and Craterus were reported to be advancing upon Athens, Demosthenes and his associates succeeded in escaping by stealth from the city, and the people, on motion of Demades, passed sentence of death upon them.

Since they had dispersed themselves to different places, Antipater sent his soldiers about to arrest them under the command of Archias, the so-called exile hunter.

This man was a native of Thurii, and the story goes that he was once a tragic actor.

His marriage to Roxana, whom he saw in her youthful beauty taking part in a dance at a banquet, was a love affair, and yet it was thought to harmonize well with the matters which he had in hand.

For the barbarians were encouraged by the partnership into which the marriage brought them, and they were beyond measure fond of Alexander because, most temperate of all men that he was in these matters, he would not consent to approach even the only woman who ever mastered his affections without the sanction of law.

Moreover, when he saw that amongst his chiefest friends Hephaestion approved his course and joined him in changing his mode of life while Craterus clung fast to his native ways, he employed the former in his business with the barbarians, the latter in that with the Greeks and Macedonians.

And in general, he showed most affection for Hephaestion, but most esteem for Craterus, thinking and constantly saying that Hephaestion was a friend of Alexander, but Craterus a friend of the king.