What an excellent horse do they lose, for want of address and boldness to manage him! ... I could manage this horse better than others do.
Byzantine emperor from 912 to 913
He ruled the Byzantine Empire for eight months. In a dynasty that gave Rome some of its longest reigns, Alexander's was among the shortest—and the least remembered.
Born 23 November 870, Alexander was the third emperor of the Macedonian dynasty. He came to power in 912, inheriting an empire at the height of its medieval resurgence. His reign ended 6 June 913. What happened in those eight months left almost no mark on the chronicles, and he remains a footnote in a line that produced some of Byzantium's most consequential rulers.
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What an excellent horse do they lose, for want of address and boldness to manage him! ... I could manage this horse better than others do.
Know ye not that the end and object of conquest is to avoid doing the same thing as the conquered?
Holy shadows of the dead, I'm not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people, to fight one another.
If I were not Alexander, I should wish to be Diogenes.
Your ancestors came to Macedonia and the rest of Hellas [Greece] and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury.
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