Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

THE BATTLE OF THE ELEPHANTS. 121
him the elephants [p. 68] which were with them.
And it came to pass that when the elephants of Poms,
the king of India, came up to the images which
Alexander had made and twisted their trunks about
them, they burnt their trunks, and they turned
round and rushed away in a body to the rear;''
and the Persian soldiers cut down the soldiers ofThe mght of
Porus as they fled. Now when God had
the Indians.
turned
back the elephants^ the courage [of the Greeks
and Persians] was strengthened, and they joined
in the fight.'* Then Porus, the king of India, called
the magicians from the temple of his god and they a speii
=>
thrown on
.
cast a spell upon Alexander, and his mare rose up Bucephalus,
under him and threw him on the ground, and she
refused to rise up until he could lead her;^ now she
was the mare which had by sorcery been born at
the same time as himself. ^ And Alexander thought
that he would be conquered, and he was in great
tribulation about himself and about his soldiers.
And he was going about among his troops and encour-
^ •
Read Hjn'ftA.y. ! or Hy^ftA.U'tf"-
^ Read ii^'^d.W'^ • ^ Read Arh^9"'Hih =
'' The Greeks shot arrows after the Indians, and harassed
them with their cavalry KUi TOUTOug enebiuuKOV ToSoPoXiaii;
KQi iTTno]uaxiai5. See Meusel, p. 771.
5 TTiTTTei hi. 6 'AXeSdvbpou ittttos 6 BouKecpaXog eSaff-
6evr|cras if\ xviunr)' Kai toutou yevojaevou dneXr|craq toO
TToXeiaou 6 'AXeSavbpo? k. t. X.; see Meusel, p. 771. A
variant quoted by Muller (p. 97) has biaXriqjOeis utto tou
TTiipou, Ktti e5Ti(T0evr|CTe i\\v YVUJiuriv.
^ See above, p. 19.
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