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Goodnight old man, and when my mother re-marries,
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I'll invite you to her wedding.
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You bastard!
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You'll obey me, come here!
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And this is the man who is going to take you from Greece to Persia?
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He can't even make it from one couch to the next.
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Get out of my palace! You're exiled, you bastard!
:33:51
Banished from the land! You're not welcome here!
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You're no son of mine.
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Everything, suddenly changed for him,
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His father, King Philip, was murdered,
:34:13
..and Alexander 20
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..became the new ruler of Macedonia.
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And breaking their treaties with us, dismissing
Alexander as an untried boy,
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Several Greek city-states,
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rose up in revolt, much to Persia's delight, and
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.. half-sponsored by their gold.
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And truly Alexander could love like no other,
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but to betray him was to arrouse a vast and frightening anger,
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..and he massacred several thousand of the
men of that tragic city, Thebes,
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and sold the survivors into slavery.
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This, as intended, stunned and defeated the greeks,
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and though in the end he treated
most populations with..magnanimity,