Aeschines Against Ctesiphon 164

[164] But when Darius was come down to the coast ¹ with all his forces, and Alexander was shut up in Cilicia in extreme want, as you yourself said, and was, according to your statement, on the point of being trampled under the hoofs of the Persian horse, and when there was not room enough in the city to contain your odious demonstrations and the letters that you carried around, dangling them from your fingers, while you pointed to my face as showing my discouragement and consternation, and in anticipation of some mishap to Alexander you called me gilded horn, and said the garland was already on my head, ² not even then did you take one step, but deferred it all for some more favorable opportunity.