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[5] 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.

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