This even goes back in Ancient times...
When Alexander the Great felt that his life was threatened and he is said to have called for his guards in Macedonian. When his life was threatened he reverts to his more primitive psyche, which could be interpreted as "overpowering his expressed intellectual preference for the Greeks, i.e. the Greek part of his own nature". "But the answer is probably simpler than that", writes Badian. "He used the only language in which his guards could be addressed".
[Note: The guards could be addressed in Macedonian only.]
Alexander. A "dialect" that Alexander the Great himself called "our Macedonian language".
When Alexander the Great felt that his life was threatened and he is said to have called for his guards in Macedonian. When his life was threatened he reverts to his more primitive psyche, which could be interpreted as "overpowering his expressed intellectual preference for the Greeks, i.e. the Greek part of his own nature". "But the answer is probably simpler than that", writes Badian. "He used the only language in which his guards could be addressed".
[Note: The guards could be addressed in Macedonian only.]
Alexander. A "dialect" that Alexander the Great himself called "our Macedonian language".
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