Hic cum ferocius Onomarcho loqui videretur, Quid? Tu, inquit, animo si isto eras, cur non in proelio cecidisti potius quam in potestatem inimici venires? Huic Eumenes: Utinam quidem istud evenisset! Sed eo non accidit, quod numquam cum fortiore sum congressus; non enim cum quoquam arma contuli, quin is mihi succubuerit. Neque id erat falsum; non enim virtute hostium, sed amicorum perfidia decidit. . . nam et dignitate fuit honesta et viribus ad laborem ferendum firmis neque tam magno corpore quam figura venusta.
Since it seemed to Onomachus that this remark was over-arrogant, he retorted: Well, if that was your feeling, why did you not die in battle rather than fall into the hands of your enemy? To which Eumenes answered: Would that what you say had happened; but the reason that it did not is because I have never encountered a foeman stronger than myself; for I have never joined battle with anyone that he did not yield to me. And that was true, since it was not the enemys valour, but a friends treachery, that undid him ... for he had an imposing appearance, powers of endurance that enabled him to bear hardship, and a graceful figure rather than great size of body.
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