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5He tried to come in again, however, by another door, very boldly and contemptuously reciting these iambics from the “Andromache” of Euripides:[84]
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.“Alas! in Hellas what an evil government!”
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Notes
[84] Verse 683 (Kirchhoff).