§8.125.1ὡς δὲ ἐκ τῆς Λακεδαίμονος ἀπίκετο ἐς τὰς Ἀθήνας, ἐνθαῦτα Τιμόδημος Ἀφιδναῖος τῶν ἐχθρῶν μὲν τῶν Θεμιστοκλέος ἐών, ἄλλως δὲ οὐ τῶν ἐπιφανέων ἀνδρῶν, φθόνῳ καταμαργέων ἐνείκεε τὸν Θεμιστοκλέα, τὴν ἐς Λακεδαίμονα ἄπιξιν προφέρων, ὡς διὰ τὰς Ἀθήνας ἔχοι τὰ γέρεα τὰ παρὰ Λακεδαιμονίων, ἀλλʼ οὐ διʼ ἑωυτόν. §8.125.2ὁ δέ, ἐπείτε οὐκ ἐπαύετο λέγων ταῦτα ὁ Τιμόδημος, εἶπε
οὕτω ἔχει τοι· οὔτʼ ἂν ἐγὼ ἐὼν Βελβινίτης ἐτιμήθην οὕτω πρὸς Σπαρτιητέων, οὔτʼ ἂν σὺ, ὤνθρωπε, ἐὼν Ἀθηναῖος. ταῦτα μέν νυν ἐς τοσοῦτο ἐγένετο.
When he returned from Lacedaemon to Athens, there Timodemus of Aphidnae, who was one of Themistocles' enemies but otherwise not a man of distinction, being mad with envy, began to abuse Themistocles, bringing up his visit to Lacedaemon as a reproach, and saying that he held his honors from the Lacedaemonians because of Athens, and not because of himself. And he, when Timodemus did not cease saying these things, said, "Thus indeed stands the matter: neither would I, if I had been a man of Belbina, have been so honored by the Spartans, nor would you, sir, though being an Athenian." Now these things went thus far.