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ALEXANDER S EXPEDITION TO THE EAST. 7<br />

and to gather together' [their forces] to meet<br />

<strong>Alexander</strong>'s attack, and he told them of his know-<br />

ledge and wisdom. Meanwhile <strong>Alexander</strong> ga,ve Mexander<br />

J n 1<br />

•<br />

1 1 1<br />

• r • addresses<br />

orders to all his generals and his friends, and spake ws sowiers.<br />

unto them, saying, "O men, everything shall be<br />

"perfected according to the petition of him who<br />

"hath good counsel and strength, and who hath<br />

"laboured in the purification of his mind; whosoever<br />

"among you is capable of these things God shall help<br />

"him against his enemy, and whosoever cannot do this<br />

"let him depart from us". And they made answer<br />

unto him, saying, "All these qualities hath God ^heir reply,<br />

"gathered together in the king and in Himself<br />

"We are his servants, and there shall not be left<br />

"any man among us [p. 39] who shall not go<br />

"forth to meet Darius in battle through love for<br />

"the king, and to do his good pleasure". Then<br />

the Two-horned rejoiced greatly at their answer,<br />

and he prayed to God on their behalf<br />

So <strong>Alexander</strong> marched on and directed his way <strong>Alexander</strong><br />

to the land of Egypt, and he saw on the sea coast g°pt<br />

'°<br />

a port for his ships opposite the coast, and he<br />

commanded them to build a city there after his<br />

name: and a city was built there, which is Alex-<br />

andria^. And the countries of Egypt and Nubia<br />

and Ethiopia were opened to him without fighting;<br />

' Read (D^^PiKh<br />

'' In the MS. U'^^'li : altered into U^TJ^^- •<br />

3 For fabulous accounts of the building of Alexandria<br />

see Pseudo-Callisthenes, Bk. I. chap. 3 1 ff. and Mas'udi (ed.<br />

B. de Meynard) torn. ii. p. 42 off.

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