Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

ALEXANDER CONQUERS THE INDIANS. I 25
he was greatly terrified,^ and feared that they
would be utterly destroyed by the Indians. Then
he uncovered his head, and spoke to them, saying,
"O men of India, why do ye [p. 70] carry on this
"fight, and destroy yourselves?" And they made
answer to him, saying, "We will fight until we die
"that we may not fall into your hands, and that
"ye may not become masters over us [to do with
"usl as ve please." And the Two-horned king said Alexander
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"unto them, "Whosoever will lay down his weapons Indians am-
"from his hands let him come to me and place
"his faith in me, and I will give unto him what-
"soever things and raiment he shall desire, and I
"will set him in authority and will pay him honour,
"for behold, your arms are mine." Now he spake
these words unto them as they were sorrowing
for their king, and as they were fighting with great
energy in battle; and Alexander spake thus be-
cause the Greeks were not able to do battle with
the Indians. And it came to pass that when the
Indians heard what gifts Alexander had promised ^he Indians
accept.
unto them, they believed [him], and laid down their
arms from their hands before Alexander, the king,
the Two-horned; so Alexander and his soldiers
ceased from the fierceness of battle.
Then Alexander sat upon the royal throne and Alexander,
put on the royal crown of Porus, the king of India, dia^
and he took his kingdom and his army, and his
son, and his gold, and his silver, and his armour.
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