Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

Three hun- to bind the beast,' with ropes, and three hundred
dred men
men dragged it out of the ditch, and cut open
needed to
move it.
150
THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
And it came to pass, on the morrow when
daylight had appeared that I commanded the men
its belly, and they found therein great numbers
of snakes and scorpions, and fish larger than oxen;
and each of its [p. 83] tusks was a cubit in length,
and its claws were like unto those of hawks. Now
this beast is the most voracious of all the wild
beasts of that country. And from the time when
God created the heavens, and the earth, and
whatsoever is above them, no man ever trod the
ground of this country except ourselves.
The Greeks And when we had destroyed the wild beasts
corn^try" of which Were round about us and that monster which
men with Qj^j appeared at nig^ht time and never during
birds faces. J L l o o
the day, we rose up and departed from that place,
"" and we arrived at a forest filled with fruit-bearing
plants, and trees, and streams, and water courses,
and within it were men who could not talk, and
their faces were like unto the faces of ravens,
and their garments were like goatskin, and they
[held] spears in^ their hands. And when we drew
nigh unto them they cast their spears at us, and
I commanded my horsemen and they charged
^ This beast is clearly the irvA nT~?j of the Syriac version^
and the odojitotyrannus of the Latin translation: see Pseudo-
Callisthenes, Bk. iii. chap. 10, and Miiller, p. 105, and p. 123,
col. I.
" See Muller, p. 86, col. i. 3 Read ffldhJEl^lf O^- :