person
Alexander III of Macedon
Alexander the Great
also: Magni Alexandri, Alexandro
King of Macedon and conqueror of the Persian empire. Cicero notes that Alexander put to death his learned companion Callisthenes, in a chain of exempla on the perils of attendance at royal courts.
Reading notes
- On Divination §2.135 such also as that of Alexander
Alexander the Great, whose dream of his mother's serpent revealing a healing root (and the cure of his friend Ptolemy) Cicero cites among the ``open and clear'' dreams, attributing its success to chance.
- Fifth Philippic §48 Alexander the Macedonian
Alexander the Great, who died at thirty-two; Cicero invokes him to argue that youth need be no bar to great command, in support of honours for the nineteen-year-old Octavian.
- Tusculan Disputations §3.21 Alexander's prosperous fortunes
Alexander III of Macedon (356-323 BC). Theophrastus's lament treats Alexander as a man of supreme power and fortune who did not know how to use prosperity rightly.
- Tusculan Disputations §4.79 King Alexander, who, when he had killed his close companion Clitus
Alexander the Great killed his friend Cleitus in a drunken quarrel and was so consumed by remorse that he nearly took his own life. Cicero cites it as proof that anger is voluntary and curable by opinion.