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Quotation from The Campaigns of Alexander by Arrian
“a long pike from one of his ordinary guards, with which he struck Clitus and killed him”
The Campaigns of Alexander, Book IV, Chapter 8, trans. E. J. Chinnock (1884)
The drunken quarrel at Maracanda ends with Alexander killing his friend Clitus, who had saved his life at the Granicus.
Citation: "a long pike from one of his ordinary guards, with which he struck Clitus and killed him" — Arrian, The Campaigns of Alexander, Book IV, Chapter 8, trans. E. J. Chinnock (1884). (id the-campaigns-of-alexander-q7)
