When Antigonus was besieging some Greeks in a small fort, the defenders made fun of how he looked. They mocked his short height and broken nose, confident that their strong position made them safe. Antigonus replied, "I'm delighted and expect good luck, because I have a Silenus in my camp." After he starved these clever jokers into surrender, he drafted the men who could fight and sold the rest as slaves at auction. He said he wouldn't have done this if it weren't better for people with such vicious tongues to be under a master's control.
as that of his countrymen; thus when he was besieging some Greeks in a little fort, and they, despising their enemy through their confidence in the strength of their position, cut many jokes upon the ugliness of Antigonus, at one time mocking him for his shortness of stature, at another for his broken nose, he answered, “I rejoice, and expect some good fortune because I have a Silenus in my camp.” After he had conquered these witty folk by hunger, his treatment of them was to form regiments of those who were fit for service, and sell the rest by public auction; nor would he, said he, have done this had it not been better that men who had such evil tongues should be under the control of a master.