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I02 THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.<br />

"I mourned over him with a bitter grief because<br />

"I found him in the agonies of death. And I<br />

"stripped off my garments and laid them upon<br />

"him, and I staunched his wounds with strips' of<br />

"linen from my garments, and I questioned him<br />

"concerninof the thing's about which I wished to<br />

<strong>Alexander</strong> "questiou him, and he answered me, and he bedescribes<br />

Darius' "queathed to my care<br />

, .<br />

his<br />

,<br />

mother, and his wife,<br />

"and Rasik [RoxanaJ his daughter, and then he<br />

"died; and I do not call to mind anything else be-<br />

"sides this. And after these things I had him<br />

"made ready for burial, and I laid him in a coffin,<br />

"and I did unto him whatsoever it was meet to<br />

"do unto kings, and I buried him in a rnagnificent<br />

"tomb such as was suitable for a king. Now be<br />

"strong, and of good courage, for behold I will<br />

"make you to rule over Persia, and behold I will<br />

Hewiiimar- "marry Roxana, the daughter of Darius, according<br />

ry Roxana.<br />

, . ... .<br />

"to his Will and good pleasure, in the presence of<br />

"many of the Persians, and I will deal graciously<br />

"with her, and I will love her, and will honour<br />

"her, and will magnify her if God, the most High,<br />

"pleaseth."<br />

And it came to pass that when [p. 57] Alex-<br />

ander's letter had reached them they wrote an<br />

answer to it; now there was written in their<br />

letter thus:<br />

The reply of "We make supplication unto Him Who hath<br />

the Persian<br />

Queen and "removed thc crown from Darius and hath set it<br />

princess.<br />

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