Delphi Classics

All hated Whiggery; but what is Whiggery?
A levelling, rancorous, rational sort of mind
That never looked out of the eye of a saint
Or out of drunkard’s eye

The moon and the Pleiades set; it is midnight. Time passes and I lie alone.

father of Alexander the Great. Polybius portrays him as the ideal statesman