‘Alas! in Hellas what an evil government!’And so, at last, Alexander seized a spear from one of his guards, met Cleitus as he was drawing aside the curtain before the door, and ran him through.
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He tried to come in again, however, by another door, very boldly and contemptuously reciting these iambics from the ‘
Andromache
’ of Euripides:
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Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1919. 7.
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