Note 1 — XII Here it is told of the honour that Aminadab did to King David, his rightful lord
Edward Storer translation
Antigonus, the teacher of Alexander, when one day the latter was having a cythera played for his delight, took hold of the instrument and cast it into the mud1 and said these words: at your age it behoves you to reign and not to play the cythera. For it may be said that luxury debases the body and the country, as the sound of the cythera enfeebles the soul.2 Let him then be ashamed who should reign in virtue, and instead delights in luxury.