Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

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THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
"him Alexander according to the name of my dead
"child [p. 15] who was born to me by my [former]
"wife Cleopatra who is now dead." And it came
to pass when Philip had said this, that honours
were paid unto Alexander by cities, and by coun-
tries, by the country of Phrygia, and by the land
of Macedonia,' and by all the countries and nations
which were under his rule. And Philip did not
any longer multiply words concerning the beget-
ting and conception of Alexander, for signs and
wonderful things were heard concerning him.
And it came to pass that after a time he
left his mother's breast, and he grew little by little.
Alexander's Now he was neither like Philip, ^ nor Olympias his
pearance. mother, ^ nor Nectanebus, but his form, and appear-
ance, and likeness were quite different. For his
hair was Hke the mane of a lion; and each of his
eyes was unlike the other, the right eye being
black, and the left eye light green;* and his teeth
were long and narrow like those of a stag;^ and
the sound of his voice was as the roarine of a
' The Greek has Pella and Thrace, and the Syriac Thrace
and Macedonia.
' Read h,d.^^h
^ "He was fair, with a tinge of red in his face and upon
his breast. We read in the memoirs of Aristoxenus, that a
most agreeable scent proceeded from his skin, and that his
breath and whole body were so fragrant that they perfumed
his undergarments." Plutarch, op. cit.
t Gr. Tov |Liev beSiov Karocpepii exwv tov be euu)vu)aov
fXauKOV (Miiller, p. 12. col. 2).
5 Gr. ujg 5pdK0VT0i; (Miiller, p. 12. col. 2).