Egypt Under Ptolemy Epiphanes After the Death of Aristomenes (18, 53, 54）
All men admire the magnanimity of Philip towards
Contrast of the conduct of Philip II. of Macedon to Athens in B. C. 338 with that of Ptolemy.
Athens; for though had been injured as well as
abused by them, yet when he conquered them at
Chaeroneia, so far from using this opportunity
for injuring his opponents, he caused the corpses
of the Athenians to be buried with the proper
ceremonies; while those of them who had been
taken prisoners he actually presented with clothes, and
restored to their friends without ransom. But though men
praise they do not imitate such conduct. They rather try to
outdo those with whom they are at war, in bitterness of passion
and severity of vengeance. Ptolemy, for instance, had men
tied naked to carts and dragged at their tail, and then put to
death with torture. . . .