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Alexander the Great

Alexander died in the 114th Olympiad, in the archonship of
Hegesias at Athens. He lived, as Aristobulus tells us, thirty-two years
and eight months, and reigned twelve years and eight months. He had
great personal beauty, invincible power of endurance, and a keen
intellect; he was brave and adventurous, strict in the observance of his
religious duties, and hungry for fame. Most temperate in the pleasures
of the body, his passion was for glory only, and in that he was
insatiable. He had an uncanny instinct for the right course in a
difficult and complex situation, and was most happy in his deductions
from observed facts. In arming and equipping troops, and in his military
dispositions, he was always masterly. Noble indeed was his power of
inspiring his men, of filling them with confidence, and, in the moment
of danger, of sweeping away their fear by the spectacle of his own
fearlessness. When risks had to be taken, he took them with the utmost
boldness, and his ability to seize the moment for a swift blow, before
his enemy had any idea of what was coming, was beyond praise. No cheat
or liar ever caught him off his guard, and both his word and his bond
were inviolable. Spending but little on his own pleasures, he poured out
his money without stint for the benefit of his friends.

~Arrian, The Campaigns of Alexander, translated by Aubrey de Selincourt

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