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  1. Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brothe…
  2. If it were not my purpose to combine barbarian things with things Hellenic (Greek), to traverse and civilize every continent, to search out…
  3. What an excellent horse do they lose, for want of address and boldness to manage him! ... I could manage this horse better than others do.
  4. Our enemies are Medes and Persians, men who for centuries have lived soft and luxurious lives; we of Macedon for generations past have been…
  5. So would I, if I were Parmenion.
  6. Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas (Greece) and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury. I have bee…
  7. Youths of the Pellaians and of the Macedonians and of the Hellenic Amphictiony and of the Lakedaimonians and of the Corinthians: and of all…
  8. Now you fear punishment and beg for your lives, so I will let you free, if not for any other reason so that you can see the difference betw…

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