Iamque Clitus etiam Parmenionem defendere audebat et Philippi de Atheniensibus victoriam Thebarum praeferebat excidio, non vino modo, sed etiam animi prava contentione provectus.
And now Clitus even ventured to defend Parmenion and extolled the victory of Philip over the Athenians above the destruction of Thebes, being carried away, not only by wine, but by a perverse spirit of contention.
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