:58:03
But by blood, and blood alone, he was guilty.
:58:18
Within hours, we were fighting like jackals for his corpse.
:58:23
Wars of the world had begun.
:58:26
Forty years, off and on, they endured,
:58:28
Cassander in Greece, Crateros and Antigonas in Western Asia,
:58:33
Seleukos and Perdiccas in the East, myself in Egypt,
:58:37
..until we divided his empire in four parts.
:58:42
Cassander certainly proved his will to power,
:58:46
And seven years later he had Olympias executed,
:58:50
And within 12 years he achieved the
complete destruction of Alexander's bloodline,
:58:57
When he poisoned Roxane
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..and Alexander's 13 year old
son, the true heir to the empire.
:59:08
But the truth is never simple,
:59:12
and yet it is,
:59:14
The truth is, we did kill him,
:59:21
By silence we consented,
:59:24
because, because we couldn't go on,
:59:29
What, by Aries, did we had to look forward to,
:59:32
..but to be discarded in the end, like Cleitus?
:59:34
After all this time, to give away our wealth
to Asian sycophants we despised?
:59:39
Mixing the races? Harmony? Bah!
:59:43
Oh, he talked of these things,
:59:46
But wasn't it really about Alexander?
..another population ready to obey him?
:59:53
I never believed in his dream. None of us did.
:59:59
That's the truth of his life,