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I go THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.<br />

"men' in [my] army are [in number] eight hundred'<br />

"thousand horsemen, but if thou desirest to see<br />

"us in the day of battle, [well and good]. I have<br />

"sent thee a gift,^ prithee receive it from me."<br />

candace And"* Candace sent a skilful painter to <strong>Alexander</strong>'s<br />

causes Alex- , .<br />

. , . . . ^<br />

^<br />

ander's por- cauip, aud shc Ordered him to pamt for her a<br />

patated"<br />

"^portait of <strong>Alexander</strong>, and to depict very carefully<br />

his form, and walk, and look, and dress, and<br />

bearing; and the painter went to the camp of<br />

<strong>Alexander</strong> and disguised himself as one of his<br />

own friends, and took his likeness, and painted<br />

the picture of <strong>Alexander</strong>, and carried it back to<br />

Candace. And she took the effigy, and set it in her<br />

chamber without her children or the people of<br />

her house knowing anything of it.<br />

Now when the messenger^ returned to <strong>Alexander</strong>,<br />

he informed him that the queen had gathered<br />

together her soldiers and arms. And <strong>Alexander</strong><br />

ordered his horsemen to make ready to march<br />

' Read aotl't'^^M • hii iD-M' •<br />

^ The Greek has uTTdpxo)uev 5e eiq 71X11605 cTKUTCtXai<br />

ofboiiKovxa.<br />

i The gift consisted of loo gold ingots, 500 Ethiopians,<br />

200 parrots, 200 sphinxes, a crown set with pearls and eme-<br />

ralds for the god Amen, i o strings of pearls, So ivory boxes,<br />

308 elephants, 300 leopards, 13 rhinoceroses, 4 panthers,<br />

300 man-eating dogs, 300 animals for fighting, 6 elephants'<br />

tusks, 300 leopard skins, and 1500 ebony rods; see Miiller,<br />

p. 126.<br />

"* See Pseudo-Callisthenes, Bk. iii. chap. 19 (Miiller, p.<br />

126, Meusel, p. 777).<br />

5 /. c, Cleomenes.

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