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15. See likewise his readiness in reprehension of logic, 

 in the speech he used to Cassander, upon a complaint 

 that was made against his father Antipater : for when 

 Alexander happed to say, Do you think these men would 

 have come from so far to complain, except they had just 

 cause of grief ? and Cassander answered, Yea, that was 

 the matter, because they thought they should not be disproved ; 

 said Alexander laughing: Seethe subtilties of Aristotle, to 

 take a matter both ways, pro et contra, &c. 



1 6. But note again how well he could use the same 

 art, which he reprehended, to serve his own humour: 

 when bearing a secret grudge to Callisthenes, because 

 he was against the new ceremony of his adoration, feast 

 ing one night where the same Callisthenes was at the 

 table, it was moved by some after supper, for entertain 

 ment sake, that Callisthenes, who was an eloquent man, 

 might speak of some theme or purpose at his own 

 choice ; which Callisthenes did ; choosing the praise of 

 the Macedonian nation for his discourse, and performing 

 the same with so good manner as the hearers were much 

 ravished : whereupon Alexander, nothing pleased, said, // 

 was easy to be eloquent upon so good a subject: but saith 

 he, Turn your style, and let us hear what you can say 

 against us: which Callisthenes presently undertook, and 

 did with that sting and life, that Alexander interrupted 

 him and said, The goodness of the cause made him eloquent 

 before, and despite made him eloquent then again. 



17. Consider further, for tropes of rhetoric, that ex 

 cellent use of a metaphor or translation, wherewith he 

 taxed Antipater, who was an imperious and tyrannous 

 governor : for when one of Antipater s friends com 

 mended him to Alexander for his moderation, that he 

 did not degenerate, as his other lieutenants did, into the 



