Age, Philippi quam probabilis epistula, in qua Alexandrum quorundam Macedonum benivolentiam largitione ad se adtrahere conatum sic increpuit! quae te, fili, ratio in hanc tam vanam spem induxit, ut eos tibi fideles futuros existimares quos pecunia ad amorem tui compulisses? a caritate istud pater, ab usu Philippus, maiore ex parte mercator Graeciae quam victor.
Come then, what a commendable letter that was of Philips in which he reproved Alexander for trying to attract the good will of certain Macedonians by giving them money! My son, whatever line of reasoning gave you this idle expectation to make you think that people whose love you forced with money would be loyal to you? As a father he wrote this from affection, as Philip from experience'Philip, who bought more of Greece than he conquered.
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