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6o THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.<br />

"ledcre of war/ and ye have neither authority nor<br />

"excuse, so far as I am concerned, to make a league<br />

"with a vile Greek. Let him not remain in your<br />

"country, but do not imagine within yourselves that<br />

"he can by any means come against us."^<br />

And^ it came to pass after these things that<br />

Darius the king heard that <strong>Alexander</strong> the Two-<br />

horned had marched on and had arrived with his<br />

army at the river Kopres,'' which was a mighty<br />

stream. Then Darius, the king of Persia, wrote<br />

to him a letter saying:<br />

Darius "From Darius, the king of the earth, to Alexan-<br />

writes to<br />

<strong>Alexander</strong>.<br />

"der, the king of the Greeks, the son of Philip,'<br />

' Read hJ\OK •<br />

^ According to the Greek Darius ordered the satraps on<br />

this side of the Taurus to make captive <strong>Alexander</strong> and to<br />

send him to him unharmed, as he intended to dress him<br />

in purple, and to beat him, and to send him back to his<br />

mother Olympias in Macedonia provided with the toys {hohc,<br />

auTiI) KpoTCxXriv Kai dffTpaYdXoui;) with which Macedonian<br />

children play, and accompanied by men to teach him when<br />

there. <strong>Alexander</strong>'s ships were to be sunk, his generals sent<br />

in chains to Darius, and his soldiers to be banished<br />

to the Red Sea; the horses and baggage animals Darius'<br />

friends were to keep for themselves. The satraps' reply<br />

consisted chiefly of a statement of their surprise that Darius<br />

should have remained ignorant of the approach of such a<br />

mighty army, and of an appeal to him for assistance to be sent<br />

promptly.<br />

i See Pseudo-Callisthenes, Bk. I. chap. 40 (Miiller, p. 44,<br />

Meusel, p. 735).<br />

* The Greek has Ttpoi; Tuj TTivdpuj TroTa|j.LU.<br />

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