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Hic Alexander Responsum accepit usque quo Alexander

a Pleiades place resource

Creators: Jeffrey Becker, Richard Talbert Copyright © The Contributors. Sharing and remixing permitted under terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License (cc-by).
Last modified Oct 02, 2025 09:16 PM — History
This Latin legend is marked on the manuscript of the Tabula Peutingeriana in the general vicinity of the city of Alexandria Eschate. Posed as a rhetorical question, this text may corroborate a story related in the Alexander Romance relating to Alexander's seeming insatiable appetite for territorial conquest.

https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/302268005

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Richard Talbert translates the Latin as follows: "Here Alexander received the response [from Stoics and demons]: 'Only this far, Alexander'."


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Jeffrey Becker, and Richard Talbert, 'Hic Alexander Responsum accepit usque quo Alexander: a Pleiades place resource', Pleiades: A Gazetteer of Past Places, 2025 <https://pleiades.stoa.org/places/302268005> [accessed: 07 March 2026] 

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