Haec et his similia laeti audiere iuvenes; ingrata senioribus erant, maxime propter Philippum, sub quo  diutius vixerant, cum Clitus, ne ipse quidem satis sobrius, ad eos qui infra ipsum cubabant conversus Euripidis rettulit carmen, ita ut sonus magis quam  sermo exaudiri posset a rege, quo significabatur male instituisse Graecos, quod tropaeis regum dumtaxat nomina inscriberent; alieno enim sanguine partam gloriam intercipi.
These and similar things the young soldiers heard with pleasure, but they were odious to the older men, especially because of Philip, under whom they  had lived longer, when Clitus, who was himself by no means wholly sober, turned to those who were reclining below him, and quoted a line of Euripides in such a tone that the sound could be heard by the king  rather than the words made out, to the effect that it was a bad custom of the Greeks to inscribe on their trophies only the names of kings; for the kings stole the glory won by the blood of others.
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