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144<br />

THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.<br />

they did so; and they made slaughter among the<br />

people of India and killed of them men without<br />

number. And I remained [there] the whole of my<br />

day/ [p. 80] so that if any of them appeared I<br />

might cut off his head, and I slew the people<br />

there until their country stank with the slaughter.<br />

Indian<br />

monsters.<br />

And behold, it came to pass a few days after<br />

that there came towards us a beast^ of the<br />

monsters of the sea which was like unto a cro-<br />

codile, but it was bigger than a crocodile, and<br />

its appearance was very frightful, and when it<br />

came against us we went out to it with weapons<br />

of war, and with hunting nets, and with fire, and<br />

it made haste to fight with my servants; now our<br />

weapons had no effect upon it to injure it what-<br />

soever, and when I saw that I was not able^ to<br />

overcome it I knew that it was Satan. And I<br />

rose up from my camp conquered, and the monsters<br />

of the sea and the lions of that country wished<br />

to destroy us; and when there happened to me<br />

along that sea what did happen to me, I laid waste<br />

and ravaged that country and all that was therein.''<br />

Now when I had consumed everything belono-ino-<br />

Tripitu.<br />

' The Greek has 'E|U£iva|uev be rmepai; f] eni Tiij cxKpo-<br />

This must be the hehdomadarion beast which could carry<br />

elephants on its back; see Miiller, p. 121, col i.<br />

^ Read A.hUAh'P :<br />

"• The <strong>Ethiopic</strong> version does not mention the eclipse which<br />

<strong>Alexander</strong> saw in India, nor does it mention Darius.

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