Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

96 THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
And he ordered a herald to go round about through
the camp, and proclaim that the soldiers should
gather together, bearing their weapons of war on
their shoulders, and that they should march before
the bier containing the dead body of Darius; and
he ordered that the chiefs and generals of his
army should march by the side of it on the right
hand and on the left. And Alexander the king
His burial, came down from his horse and went on foot by
the side of the bier to the ofrave, together with
his bodyguard, and with the Persian soldiers, and
with all the people in their various grades; [p. 53]
then he commanded his soldiers ' to lay him in the
grave, but he did not himself bury him." And the
whole army of Alexander was sorry for him ^ with
The appro- a great sorrow. Now when the Persians saw these
persiaL*''^^^"&^ they gave thanks unto Alexander, and they
marvelled at the graciousness of his behaviour,
and what he had done was pleasing unto them,
and they became subject unto him.
And it came to pass that when Alexander had
inherited the kingdom of Darius and had taken
his seat on his throne, he wrote* a proclamation
' Read AhfCiU- •'
^ Read ^4*'flCJ"
' This seems to be the meaning of
the passage. The Greek says that Alexander himself helped
the satraps to carry the body on his shoulders, but Ou TOff-
ouTov be ecrxevov oi diKoXouBoOvTei; em Aapeiuj ocrov etti
'AXeEdvbpiu paaidZiovTi.
3 Literally, "for me".
4 Read Oi^Axi, '