1 Alexander The Great Proper -librarians (1956) Subtitles

At 00:00:21,269, Character said: It is men who endure toil and dare
dangers that achieve glorious deeds.

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At 00:00:25,858, Character said: And it is a lovely thing
to live with courage,

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At 00:00:28,256, Character said: and to die leaving behind
an everlasting renown.

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At 00:02:11,385, Character said: War! This is what Demosthenes
calls for, war!

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At 00:02:18,685, Character said: - Aeschenes puts words in my mouth.
- If you mean truth, I put it there.

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At 00:02:22,856, Character said: I know of no other way
for it to come from your mouth!

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At 00:02:28,278, Character said: Your audience performs well today.

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At 00:02:30,469, Character said: Philip's money is well spent. The words
I used were "arms" and "money".

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At 00:02:35,161, Character said: I quarrel with the words you did not use:
"Men" and "blood".

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At 00:02:38,393, Character said: If these words must be used...
yes, men and blood.

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At 00:02:42,043, Character said: Athenian men and Athenian blood?

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At 00:02:43,921, Character said: To save Athens,
whose blood should be shed?

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At 00:02:46,319, Character said: - To save Athens, not Olynthus!
- And if Olynthus falls to the barbarian,

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At 00:02:51,220, Character said: what stands between
Athens and destruction?

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At 00:02:53,931, Character said: - Peace!
- Move for peace and I'll support you.

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At 00:02:58,103, Character said: Men of Athens,
are there still madmen among you...?

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At 00:03:01,751, Character said: Who wish to live?
I'm mad. I'm stark, raving mad.

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At 00:03:11,659, Character said: Are there sane men among you
who still think that we have the power

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At 00:03:16,246, Character said: to debate the question of war or peace?

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At 00:03:19,166, Character said: Who will fight? You or us?

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At 00:03:21,877, Character said: Why do you speak thus? For love
of country or love of Philip's gold?

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At 00:03:27,508, Character said: No! No! No!

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At 00:03:29,385, Character said: Philip has been at war with us ever since
he razed the first Greek city to the ground.

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At 00:03:34,599, Character said: And as each Greek city fell,
Philip, too, kept proclaiming peace.

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At 00:03:39,917, Character said: And, to our eternal shame,

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At 00:03:42,003, Character said: we stood by and never once
cried out against his barbaric acts.

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At 00:03:47,738, Character said: Are you blind that you cannot see that
this is the plan for Philip's conquest...

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At 00:03:53,369, Character said: to extend his rule city by city,
state by state,

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At 00:03:58,166, Character said: by bribery, treachery, force of arms?

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At 00:04:14,016, Character said: - Yes?
- From Macedonia. Message for the king.

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At 00:04:18,396, Character said: Philip.

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At 00:04:21,941, Character said: Philip, wake up.
There's a messenger from Macedonia.

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At 00:04:26,529, Character said: Ah, such dreams I had.

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At 00:04:30,596, Character said: Such strange and troubled drunken dreams.

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At 00:04:34,350, Character said: A messenger...?

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At 00:04:36,957, Character said: - What news do you bring? Good or bad?
- You have a son.

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At 00:04:41,337, Character said: - A son?
- Born to the queen three weeks ago.

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At 00:04:45,299, Character said: - I have a son.
- Alexander.

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At 00:04:47,593, Character said: - That's the name the queen gave him.
- Alexander. And the queen?

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At 00:04:51,869, Character said: - She sends you greetings.
- Greetings?

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At 00:04:54,684, Character said: "To Philip. Hail and rejoice."

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At 00:04:56,874, Character said: "On this day to Olympias,
your queen and wife, a god was born."

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At 00:05:04,799, Character said: - A god?
- Those were the queen's words.

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At 00:05:07,510, Character said: What mother in Greece has not dreamed
that her first-born was a god?

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At 00:06:27,283, Character said: Hail, Philip, conqueror.

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At 00:06:32,183, Character said: Hail, Egyptian.

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At 00:06:36,459, Character said: I want to see my son.

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At 00:06:42,820, Character said: Looks like you... the hair, the eyes.

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At 00:06:46,470, Character said: Even his beard!

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At 00:06:49,076, Character said: You named him well: Alexander.

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At 00:06:52,726, Character said: Alexander of Macedonia.

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At 00:06:55,646, Character said: Alexander of Greece.

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At 00:06:59,191, Character said: Little lion.

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At 00:07:01,798, Character said: Little god.

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At 00:07:07,325, Character said: I say, uh...

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At 00:07:10,453, Character said: I've heard that legend.

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At 00:07:13,060, Character said: There were signs
of greatness at his birth.

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At 00:07:15,771, Character said: Quakes and storms shook the earth,
and in the skies a star fell.

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At 00:07:20,255, Character said: And two eagles perched upon
the roof of the queen's chamber.

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At 00:07:24,322, Character said: And in far off Asia,

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At 00:07:26,199, Character said: the Temple of Ephesus was struck
by lightning and burnt to the ground.

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At 00:07:30,683, Character said: How did you read these signs, soothsayer?

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At 00:07:33,186, Character said: The two eagles...
that he was born to rule two worlds.

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At 00:07:38,191, Character said: The burning of the temple...

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At 00:07:39,964, Character said: that a torch was kindled that day that
would one day consume all the world,

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At 00:07:45,907, Character said: and this torch, your son.

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At 00:07:52,998, Character said: And the falling of the star?

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At 00:07:55,813, Character said: That a god was born to me... of a god.

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At 00:07:59,776, Character said: There were other signs
and portents of divinity.

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At 00:08:03,217, Character said: Before his birth, the queen had a dream.

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At 00:08:06,971, Character said: I had a dream, too, soothsayer.

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At 00:08:10,100, Character said: One night on the battlefield
of Olynthus I had a dream.

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At 00:08:13,645, Character said: I dreamed of death.

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At 00:08:18,025, Character said: And when I awoke,
I didn't know whose death it was.

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At 00:08:22,196, Character said: We want Philip!

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At 00:08:24,073, Character said: - Foretell it to me.
- Those shouts are for you.

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At 00:08:26,993, Character said: The people have been waiting for hours
to see the king and his son.

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At 00:08:59,319, Character said: - And if you kill him, what?
- Pleasure, bloody pleasure.

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At 00:09:03,281, Character said: - And if you're wrong?
- An Egyptian soothsayer dies.

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At 00:09:06,618, Character said: - And king Philip says to the world...?
- That he is also a man.

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At 00:09:10,372, Character said: A madman! And if you are, play the role
and also kill her and the boy.

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At 00:09:20,904, Character said: Kill her?

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At 00:09:25,180, Character said: - And the boy?
- Why not?

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At 00:09:27,682, Character said: Isn't it the ancient law
of the wild Macedonian chiefs?

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At 00:09:31,227, Character said: You knew her when you married...
proud and jealous,

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At 00:09:34,147, Character said: as wild as the mountains from which
she came and the gods she worshipped.

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At 00:09:38,736, Character said: What she thinks I don't know, but this I do
know: She's a woman and she taunts you.

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At 00:09:44,366, Character said: Taunts me?

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At 00:09:47,912, Character said: Tears me.

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At 00:09:51,666, Character said: And what do you believe, Parmenio?

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At 00:09:54,064, Character said: Even the oracle at Delphi
proclaims his divinity.

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At 00:09:56,776, Character said: - I've bought shrines and burned them.
- I accept the will of the gods.

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At 00:10:00,425, Character said: And what do you believe?

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At 00:10:02,928, Character said: I believe in the glory of Macedonia,
in the kingdom.

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At 00:10:06,787, Character said: In the army,
forged with your will and your strength

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At 00:10:09,602, Character said: and your belief that we were stronger and
more fit to rule than anyone in Greece,

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At 00:10:14,398, Character said: even in Athens.

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At 00:10:17,006, Character said: And you're right, Philip. We are.

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At 00:10:19,300, Character said: We must proclaim to the world
that Macedonia will not fall apart,

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At 00:10:23,367, Character said: that she will continue to rule
through you and through your son.

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At 00:10:28,893, Character said: And then, Philip,
we shall have truly lived.

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At 00:10:32,438, Character said: Go to her.

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At 00:10:34,211, Character said: You loved her once. At least
you can live in peace with her.

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At 00:10:38,278, Character said: Accept the boy. He's yours.

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At 00:10:42,032, Character said: And give them what they want.

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At 00:10:51,834, Character said: Alexander.

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At 00:10:55,275, Character said: Alexander.

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At 00:10:58,403, Character said: Achilles, too, was born of a god.

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At 00:11:01,844, Character said: And at his birth it was foretold
that he would be greater than his father.

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At 00:11:08,101, Character said: And he was.

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At 00:11:11,855, Character said: And this destiny shall be yours,
too, Alexander.

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At 00:11:16,235, Character said: Al...

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At 00:11:26,350, Character said: They want to see the prince...

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At 00:11:30,208, Character said: and the queen.

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At 00:12:45,392, Character said: - Greetings, Aristotle.
- Greetings, Alexander.

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At 00:12:48,729, Character said: - Whose kill?
- His. Alone, on foot.

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At 00:12:51,857, Character said: You should have seen it. It was like
a duel to decide which of them was king.

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At 00:12:55,819, Character said: That duel need never have been fought.

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At 00:12:59,260, Character said: Cleitus is back.

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At 00:13:02,077, Character said: Cleitus?

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At 00:13:07,290, Character said: Cleitus. Black Cleitus!

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At 00:13:09,792, Character said: - King.
- Companion.

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At 00:13:11,461, Character said: Lucky Cleitus, to be the only one
amongst us chosen to go to war....