Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

MISSION OF DARIUS TO ALEXANDER. 65
"not may tell Darius the king that which ye have
"spoken unto me, and [I would not] either that ye Alexander
"should treat your king unjustly, or that ye should their"offer.
"deal fraudulently with me in your hearts; ye
"wish to give me information concerning him, for
"the sake of the lives which ye have asked at my
"hands. And now I do not wish for your infor-
"mation because my strength is in the glorious
"God."
Now when the ambassadors heard Alexander's
words they marvelled, and said unto him, "O king
"and lord, to the like of thee [p. 35] no woman
"[save thy mother] hath ever given birth." And
it came to pass that because the ambassadors of
Darius tarried, he thought that the Two-horned had
slain them, and he sent other ambassadors bearing
a sealed letter saying thus:
"Behold, it hath reached me that thou, the Two-oadus
"horned, hast assumed the sovereignty over Greece ^bass°a-
"without my order, and that thou art marching '^°"-
"through our country' and that thou doest that
"which we have commanded thee not to do therein.
"But now return from thy work of transgression
"speedily and delay not, or I will march out against
"thee with the Persians, and I will trample upon
"thy land, and I will slay thy people, and I will Threats of
"drive thee out from thy possessions, and no- ^"^'
"thing whatsoever shall be left unto thee, and I
"will make another king in thy stead. Now, be-
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