Clitus

The king had a present of Grecian fruit brought him from the sea-coast, which was so fresh and beautiful, that he was surprised at it, and called Clitus to him to see it, and to give him a share of it.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

"Clitus," said I, "was a man of very coarse and provoking manners, was he not?"

Caleb Williams Or Things as They Are William Godwin 1796

And so we have seen princes that were esteemed wise, who have caused persons to be put to death and afterwards regretted it deeply; such as Alexander the Great with regard to Clitus and other friends, and Herod with his wife Mariamne.

The People Are Wiser and More Constant than Princes 2008

When Alexander in his fury had made Clitus his dear friend to be put to death, and saw now (saith [6007] Curtius) an alienation in his subjects 'hearts, none durst talk with him, he began to be jealous of himself, lest they should attempt as much on him, and said they lived like so many wild beasts in a wilderness, one afraid of another.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

How, on the other side, shall a poor man contain himself from this feral malady, when he shall see so manifest signs of his wife's inconstancy? when, as Milo's wife, she dotes upon every young man she sees, or, as [6092] Martial's Sota, — deserto sequitur Clitum marito, deserts her husband and follows Clitus.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Clitus saved Alexander at the battle of Granicus, but since that battle was cut, the episode is transferred to Guagamela.

Alexander the Underwhelming 2004

Alexander and Clitus; but as I find that entered in my common-place under title Drunkenness, I shall not insert it here.

The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling 2004

Clitus and his other friends, and Herod with Mariamne: But that which our Historian says of the nature of the multitude, he does not say of those who were regulated by laws, such as were the

Discourses 2003

The rest Clitus took and brought to Athens, to be submitted to trial; but, in truth, as men already sentenced to die.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003

His friends apprehending some harm from his silence, broke into the room, but he took no notice of what any of them said, till Aristander putting him in mind of the vision he had seen concerning Clitus, and the prodigy that followed, as if all had come to pass by an unavoidable fatality, he then seemed to moderate his grief.

The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romans Plutarch 2003