“Some of Alexander the Great's successors resembled him 'with their purpose customers, their bodyguards, the way they copied the poise of his neck which as tilted slightly to the left, and their loud voices in conversation, but Pyrrhus, and Pyrrhus alone, in arms and action.'”
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