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Literal Translation. 75
neither number nor valour to abide them, besides the mighty
multitudes of the whole of Greece. For if the Greeks so
desire, Europe's men will arise with them from the sea of
Silarus (?) in the south of Italy to the north of the country
of the ... in the outer fringe of Europe, which strikes against
the great ocean in the north. If they, the Greeks, desire,
there will go to them (and) will rise with them the men of
the isles of the Tyrrhene sea, from the point of Pithir (Pe-
lorus?) in Sicily to Pacén (Pachynus?) and to Posfoir (Bosporus?)
to the estuary of the Pontic sea. I desire not, then, to chal-
lenge that people, because, of the world's warriors, there are
none whose valour is equal to theirs. For they live only in
battles and in conflicts and in fights, every tribe slaying and
raiding on the other, so that they are the more dexterous in
plying spear and shield and sword. Not so the folk of Little
Asia. They have not taught themselves (?) to bide in battles
or in fights, but in peace and good-will and quiet continually.
Ye have not an army like that, wherefore I have no desire to
challenge those heroes, to whom of the world's heroes, there
is no equal. I will not, however, forbid you (to fight) lest ye
say I am incapable_of it. So far as concerns me, ye shall not
be opposed. l
339. Howbeit Alexander was encouraging warfare against
the folk of Greece, and said : Let me be leader of this hosting,
for ye shall find that I shall do Priam's will and bring victory
and triumph out of Greece beyond every one. I will rout my
foes: I will bring (home) jewels and treasures: I myself will
come safe back to my house. Hence it is that I think so;
because I was once a- hunting in Mount Ida. I saw (coming)
towards me Mercury son of Jove, and three exceeding fair
women behind him, namely, Juno and Venus and Minerva.
They tellrtheir tales at once. „There hath been made", say
they, „a mighty (marriage-) feast, for all the goddesses and
gods, by Peleus son of Aeacus; and to that wedding were in-
1 Lit. 'It shall not be my share, however, that shall go against you.