Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

ALEXANDER'S EPISTLE TO ROXANA. IO5
"and Lord, Who hast given unto me the things
"which I am not worthy to possess in this world.
"I have not attained unto them by mine own
"strength, for I am a mortal man, and I am afraid
"when my God looketh upon the feebleness of my
"strength; but it is my God and Lord Who hath
"given them unto me, and Who hath made these
"creatures subject unto me."
Then Alexander wrote an answer to Roxana, ^^ """«= *
- , second letsaying,
"I give thanks unto God Almighty, Whoter to rox-
"hath given the Persians unto me, and Who^hath
"made them subject unto me by thy marriage
"[with mej, and behold, I rejoice and am glad in
"thee and in them by reason of this thing. And
"I have written to my mother to tell her of what
"I have seen and of my marriage with thee, in
"order that she may deal graciously with thee and
"may treat thee with becoming reverence because
"of it, and may send to thee such things as are
"necessary for a queen, for I have heard concern-
"ing thine honourable estate, and thy beauty, and
"thine understanding, and thy renown. And I have
"told her that I will be united [p. 59] unto Roxana
"in a chamber in the royal palace which belonged
"to thy father." Thus did Alexander write to his
mother.'
' In one letter which Alexander wrote to his mother he
asked her to send feminine ornaments for Rodogune the
mother of Darius, and for Statira his wife, and promised to
send money in payment for them (see Miiller, p. 81. col. ii);