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For the first time in the ten years since he left Macedonia, Alexander, sick and weary, retreated.

9 seconds sound clip from the Alexander the Great (1956) movie soundboard.

You can hear this line at 02:10:40 in the Blu-ray version of the movie.

Quote context

[...]

- Whatever is done by supreme power is right.

- These are words.

- And Cleitus is dead, and I killed him.

- We will go back, Macedonians.

- And I, Ptolemy, companion of Alexander, later Pharaoh of Egypt, bear witness to the terrible return from India to Babylon.

- For the first time in the ten years since he left Macedonia, Alexander, sick and weary, retreated.

- But he turned even this retreat into victory.

- For within him, out of the death of Cleitus, a new idea was born, a new understanding, a new driving force that it was not lands that must be conquered, but the hearts of men.

- And at the end of the thirsty road, at Susa, Alexander pledged himself and us to this new idea.

- Make this union fruitful as the seeds of the earth, and let the children of Alexander, a Greek, and Roxane, a Persian, be of both worlds and live in one.

- And let this be true of all you Greeks and Persians who are married here this day at Susa.

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Alexander the Great (1956) Sound Clip

Alexander the Great Poster

Voice quotes from the movie Alexander the Great (1956), in wav/mp3 format.

Actors: Richard Burton (Alexander the Great), Fredric March (Philip II of Macedon), Peter Cushing (Memnon of Rhodes)

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