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Then Philip was vexed and ordered the horse to be led away, believing him to be altogether wild and unbroken; but Alexander, who was near by, said: ‘What a horse they are losing, because, for lack of skill and courage, they cannot manage him!’ At first, then, Philip held his peace; but as Alexander many times let fall such words and showed great distress, he said:
‘Dost thou find fault with thine elders in the belief that thou knowest more than they do or art better able to manage a horse?’
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1919. 7.
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