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Cleitus is back.
Cleitus?
Cleitus. Black Cleitus!
- King.
- Companion.
Lucky Cleitus, to be the only one
amongst us chosen to go to war.
- For war you need men.
- Three years doesn't make a man.
What does, Philotas?
The news, friend. The news. My father?
He's well. He sends you greetings.
As do all your fathers.
- Were there many victories?
- Does the sun rise every morning?
- We even raided Persian soil.
- Persia!
Across the Bosphorus one night -
a quick, short, sharp raid.
Before they knew it,
A Greek army on Persian soil -
the dream of Greece for 200 years,
and to Philip goes the glory.
Hail, Philip.
Hail, Philip!
Cleitus, why did my father send you here?
To train new troops and bring them back.
- And us?
- To train you, too, as always.
- And bring us back, too?
- I have no orders concerning that.
- Hail, Philip!
I mean him well, and love him.
But he hoards his glory like a miser,
while we sit at the feet of Aristotle
and learn of great wonders of science,
of mathematics and of logic.
And maybe one of us will write a book
and be known as the pupil of Aristotle!
Aristotle... forgive me.
For what? You spoke like a king.
I, like a teacher.
- Your blood ran quick, too?
- At Cleitus' tale of the Persian raid? Yes.
For in that act I saw something
that might unite our torn and bloody land,
and put an end to Greeks killing Greeks,
and send them marching
under Philip on their holy mission -
to conquer Persia and destroy it.
I do not know. Neither does he. Men
do not easily forget years of slaughter
and burning and pillage,
and deep and bitter hatreds.
And the cry of "Philip the Barbarian"
still echoes through the land.
He may conquer, but he will not rule.
Do you know how vast
From the Nile to the Indus,
from Samarkand to Babylon.
And beyond. Do you know
how many different people live there?
By heart. Carians, Armenians,
Jews, Parthians, Egyptians.
- I know their customs and their gods.
- Yes.
For this is more than an empire,
this is Colossus.
To rule it would take a man
as great as you can be.
That is why I say patience.
Patience? My time is short.
Short?
When the great god Zeus,
father of Achilles,
gave him his choice between a long life of
obscurity and a short one filled with glory,
he chose glory.
So did I.
Achilles died young.
Your friends are waiting for you
on the field. It's your turn to throw.
We Greeks are the chosen, the elect.
Our culture is the best,
our civilisation the best, our men the best.
- Now watch.
- (Aristotle) All others are barbarians,
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