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Persian pride, in use of purple, but kept the ancient habit 
of Macedon, of black; Zrue (saith Alexander), dut Anti- 
pater is all purple within, Or that other, when Parmenio 
came to him in the plain of Arbela, and showed him the 
innumerable multitude of his enemies, specially as they 
appeared by the infinite number of lights, as it had been 
a new firmament of stars, and thereupon advised him to 
assail them by night: whereupon he answered, Zhai he 
would not steal the victory. 
18. For matter of policy, weigh that significant dis- 
tinction, so much in all ages embraced, that he made 
between his two friends Hephestion and Craterus, when 
he said, Zhat the one loved Alexander, and the other loved 
the king: describing the principal difference of princes’ 
best servants, that some in affection love their person, 
and other in duty love their crown. 
19. Weigh also that excellent taxation of an error, 
ordinary with counsellors of princes, that they counsel 
their masters according to the model of their own mind 
and fortune, and not of their masters’; when upon 
Darius’ great offers Parmenio had said, Surely I would 
accept these offers, were I as Alexander ; saith Alexander, 
So would I were I as Parmenio. 
20. Lastly, weigh that quick and acute reply, which he 
made when he gave so large gifts to his friends and 
servants, and was asked what he did reserve for himself, 
and he answered, Hofe: weigh, I say, whether he had 
not cast up his account aright, because Aofe must be the . 
portion of all that resolve upon great enterprises. For 
this was Czsar’s portion when he went first into Gaul, 
his estate being then utterly overthrown with largesses. 
And this was likewise the portion of that noble prince, 
howsoever transported with ambition, Henry Duke of 
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