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You call governing this major province, exile?
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Has your majesty given any of his closest
companions a province so far from home?
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Then you won't make a very good Satrap, will ya Cleitus?
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So be it! Let me rot in Macedonian rags,
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..rather than shine in eastern pomp!
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I won't quake and bow down like the
sycophants you have around you,
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Hephaistion, Nearchus, Perdiccas.
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As governor of one of our most asian satropies,
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Cleitus, does it not occur to you that if my Persian subjects
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bow down before me, it is important for them to do so?
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Do I insist on Greeks doing the same?
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You accept Greek offerings as a son of Zeus, do you not?
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Only when offered.
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Then why don't you refuse these vain flatteries?
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What freedom is this to bow before you?
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You bow before Heracles, do you not?
..and he was mortal!
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But, a son of Zeus.
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How can you, so young, compare yourself to Heracles?
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Why not?
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I have achieved more in my years, traveled as far, probably farther.
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Heracles did it by himself.
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Did you conquer Asia by yourself, Alexander?
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I mean who planned the Asian invasion?
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Was it not your father?
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Or is his blood no longer good enough?
Zeus?..Amon, is it?
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You insult me, Cleitus.
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You mock my family. Be careful!
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Never!
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Would your father have take barbarians as his friends?
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Asked us to fight with them as equals in war?
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Are we not good enough any longer?
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I remember a time when we could talk as men, straight to the eye,
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None of this scraping, groveling,
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..and now you kiss them?