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Bucephalus

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Bucephalus

Favourite horse of Alexander the Great, King of Macedonia. Bucephalus died in 326 BC during Alexander's Indian campaign. Alexander built the city of Bucephala, in Afghanistan, in memory of him.



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He next proceeded to inspect his hack, which, with more quartos than a real and more blemishes than the steed of Gonela, that "tantum pellis et ossa fuit," surpassed in his eyes the Bucephalus of Alexander or the Babieca of the Cid.
For them stage-coaches will have become romances--a team of four bays as fabulous as Bucephalus or Black Bess.
Intact, my dear friend; besides the harness of your Bucephalus and mine.
 
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