It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness.

But Alexander (I of Macedon), proving himself to be an Argive, was judged to be a Greek; so he contended in the furlong race and ran a dead heat for first plac…

Haste in every business brings failures.

Now, that these descendants of Perdiccas are Greeks, as they themselves say, I myself chance to know.