Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

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THE
HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
Their chief doing any harm unto me, and He slew their chief
captives'*" by my hand. Now behold, when they saw that
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their leader was slain they left off fighting,' and
they had slain some of us and we had slain certain
of them. And I myself went with our horsemen
to capture spoil from them, and we left alive
neither small nor great among them, but we slew
them [all] with the edge of the sword. And we
came to their houses and found there their wives
and children, and I commanded that their young
men and maidens^ should be taken captive, and
that the remainder should be slain with the edge
of the sword, and I burnt their habitations with
fire. Now there were amone them some fine and
beautiful women, and these I apportioned to my
friends for handmaids, but we found amongf them
neither goods nor possessions.^
And we departed from our camp in that place,
and we marched to a country called Sara,'* and
when we had descended into it there came forth
The people men who submitted' unto us, and they brouo-ht
of Sara sub-
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mit to him. to us ohermgs and gifts, and they gave us
servants and swords, and we accepted these
things from them. Then I ordered them to build
for me in that country a place wherein I might
women.
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