Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

DEFEAT OF THE PERSIANS. 83
a number of streams together with the remainder
of his army; and Alexander pursued them with Alexander
his horsemen and overtook them, but he did not Persians.
kill them, for he cried out to them and promised
them by the Faith that he would deal graciously
with them and would not make an end of them
utterly. And Darius the king had departed from
them, being conquered, and had gone into the
heathen temple' wherein he worshipped, through
fear of Alexander. Meanwhile Alexander had himself
come into the city of Darius, and he captured the capture of
mother of Darius, and his wife, and his daughter, of^oari^.
and all his men servants, and maid servants, and
all his possessions, and vessels of gold and of silver,^
and goodly raiment, the like of which had never
before been found among kings.
And when Darius had come into the house of
his gods he wept before them, and he sat down
sorrowfully, [p. 46] and meditated what he should
do, and he thought of the destruction of his army,
and of his generals, and of his mighty men of valour, Darius takes
and of the people of his country, and of his house, tempil
' Literally, "house of idols"; the Gr. has f\\Qev ei? to
TTaXdriov auioO.
^ According to Plutarch {Alexander, xx), this victory was
a splendid one, and Alexander slew more than a hundred
and ten thousand Persians. Alexander took Darius' bow
and chariot, and his soldiers reserved for him the Persian
king's tent, wherein were found rich furniture and quantities
of gold and silver. That the mother and wife of Darius and
two unmarried daughters were among the prisoners was told
him while he sat at meat.