Debts we have none; and whatever we may contract on this account will serve as a glorious memento of our virtue. Can we but leave...

Eumenes, perceiving they despised one another, and all of them feared him, and sought an opportunity to kill him, pretended to be in want...

Largus was captured in the fields by soldiers who were pursuing another man. They took pity on him because he had been captured when they were not seeking him, and allowed him to escape in the forest. Being pursued by others, he ran back to his first captors, saying, “I would rather that you, who had compassion on me, should kill me, so that you may have the reward instead of those men.”