16.10.2013 Views

Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

You also want an ePaper? Increase the reach of your titles

YUMPU automatically turns print PDFs into web optimized ePapers that Google loves.

I06 THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.<br />

<strong>Alexander</strong> Theii Alcxandcr the king went to Roxana and<br />

R^na. he was united unto her in her father's' house. And<br />

he saw the beauty of the ornamentation which<br />

was [wrought] therein in gold, and in silver, and<br />

in precious jewels, and in hyacinthine stones, and<br />

in brass and in other [substances] which it is im-<br />

possible to describe.' And while he was with<br />

Roxana in the palace looking at the ornamentation<br />

which was therein, and at the hyacinthine stones<br />

which cunning craftsmen of old had wrought, he<br />

meditated within himself upon that which a man<br />

seeketh from a woman, and he did unto her that<br />

His gifts to which man doeth unto woman. Now when it was<br />

Rodogune . ,<br />

and statira. mommg he sent unto the mother and wife of<br />

Darius ornaments and [goodly] apparel,^ and he<br />

magnified them and sent them away honourably. And<br />

<strong>Alexander</strong> sent again unto the nobles and satraps<br />

of Persia, and he gave them magnificent gifts, and<br />

in another letter he asks her to send royal apparel for<br />

Roxana.<br />

Read Kn-y -<br />

' In MuUer (p. 82. col. i) this chapter ends :—Toij? be<br />

TOMOus ev eTOi|uuj TieTTOiriKOTec;, T£X€ia(; Kai noXXng (XTaX-<br />

Xmaeojc, Tevo|uevrig rrepl to: paaiXeia, 'AXeSdvbpuj Koi 'PujEdvii<br />

ereXecrav, and in Meusel (p. 759), beSctnevos he 'AUEavbpoq<br />

TaOta ev eToi)auj TreTroiriKev xoiji; TaMou? ^v loxq PacnXioi?<br />

Aapeiou' Kai tic, kaviu? bnnncreTai t^v ^KeT Toie xevo-<br />

Mevriv xapdv.<br />

3 No doubt the things which he had asked Olympias to<br />

send him (dTroffTeiXai |uoi tov YuvaiKeTov K6ff|uov Kai tov<br />

iHQCTiafJov 7r\(; mipoq Aapeiou Kai xrig auxoO yuvaiKoq,<br />

(Meusel, p. 759).

Hooray! Your file is uploaded and ready to be published.

Saved successfully!

Ooh no, something went wrong!