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Then Philip rose up against him with drawn sword, but, fortunately for both, his anger and his wine made him trip and fall. Then Alexander, mocking over him, said: ‘Look now, men! here is one who was preparing to cross from Europe into Asia; and he is upset in trying to cross from couch to couch.’ After this drunken broil Alexander took Olympias and established her in Epirus, while he himself tarried in Illyria.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1919. 7.
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