Life of Alexander, 1.8.2

Plutarch  translated by Bernadotte Perrin

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2And since he thought and called the Iliad a viaticum of the military art, he took with him Aristotle’s recension of the poem, called the Iliad of the Casket,[11] and always kept it lying with his dagger under his pillow, as Onesicritus informs us; and when he could find no other books in the interior of Asia, he ordered Harpalus to send him some.

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Notes

  • [11] Cf. chapter xxvi. 1.

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