Selecta ex Aeliano

commanded them to take their weapons and horses, he ordered them to level their spears, and looking at them sharply, he said, "Why then do you not do that for which you have set out?" They, seeing the man's unswerving gaze, checked their impulse. Fear took hold of them so much that they even dropped their spearheads, leaped from their horses, bowed before Darius, and gave themselves up to whatever he might desire to do. He scattered them to different places, sending some to the borders of India and others to the Scythian lands. And they remained loyal to him, holding his kindness in their memory.

XXX. (Book 7, 6.)

Once, when snow was falling, the King of the Scythians asked a man who was enduring the cold while naked if he was shivering. The man asked him in return if his forehead was cold. When the King said it was not, he said, "Therefore, neither am I, for I am all forehead."

XXXI. (Book 8, 15.)

Philip defeated the Athenians in battle at Chaeronea. Although puffed up by his success, he nevertheless controlled himself with reason and did not behave with arrogance. For this reason, he thought it necessary that he be reminded by one of his servants every morning that he was a man, and he commanded the servant to make this his task. And they say that he would not go out, nor would any of those who needed him enter to see him, until the servant had shouted this to him three times every day. He would say to him: "Philip, you are a man."