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gS THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.<br />

"your life. Your horses, and your wives, and your<br />

"apparel, and the ornaments of your wives, and<br />

"everything for which ye long will I give unto you.<br />

"And let no man [p. 54J go forth from his own<br />

"country into another, but gather ye together your<br />

"armour, and saddle ye your horses, and prepare<br />

"ye yourselves and hold yourselves in readiness<br />

"that I may take the best of your men to march<br />

"with me. If there be any man among you who<br />

"hath no armour I will give him armour for<br />

"nothing."<br />

<strong>Alexander</strong> And wheu <strong>Alexander</strong> had finished writing his<br />

the murder- proclamation he sealed it and sent it by the hand<br />

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^'"of the ambassadors who were rius.<br />

with him, and then<br />

looking upon his soldiers, both Greeks and Per-<br />

sians, he spake unto them, saying, "Behold Darius<br />

"the king hath perished, and he was slain by the<br />

"hand of a certain man, and a reward is due unto<br />

"him that slew him. And I desire to know who<br />

"murdered him, for it is meet for him that I should<br />

"give [him gifts], and that I should receive him,<br />

"and that I should improve his condition, and<br />

"that I should promote him to honour, and that I<br />

"should exalt his rank, for he hath slain mine<br />

"enemy, and hath pleased me, and hath holpen my<br />

"kingdom." Now while <strong>Alexander</strong> was thus speak-<br />

ing the Persians' opened their ears, and each<br />

man looked at his neighbour. And they said,<br />

"<strong>Alexander</strong> the king [speaketh thus] because he<br />

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