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[2] So spake Cleitus in all boldness, and those about Alexander sprang up to confront him and reviled him, while the elder men tried to quell the tumult. Then Alexander, turning to Xenodochus of Cardia and Artemius of Colophon, said: ‘Do not the Greeks appear to you to walk about among Macedonians like demi-gods among wild beasts ?’

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