But for right now, all you need to know is that all of these generals, although they were Macedonians and spoke Macedonian and not themselves Greek, but they had, just like Alexander, they had adopted Greek language, Greek culture.

不过目前，你们只要知道所有四位将领，虽然都是马其顿人，说马其顿语,不是希腊人，但是他们和亚历山大一样，使用希腊语，希腊文化。

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