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ALEXANDER AND CANDAULES.<br />

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whithersoever he might wish them to march, and candauies<br />

while matters were in this state, behold, his friends fore Aiexan-<br />

brought in to him [p. 108] a son of Candace, "^"^<br />

whose name was Kanderos (Candauies),' and who<br />

had gone out with a company of his soldiers, and<br />

with his servants, and wife to celebrate a festival.<br />

Now as I was asleep they brought him to Pto-<br />

lemy my servant,^ because of what he had done,<br />

and he said to him, "O son of queen Candace,<br />

"what hath happened to thee, and what hath brought<br />

"thee to us? Dost thou desire to act craftily with<br />

"us?" And he sware unto them that he did not<br />

desire to act craftily unto them, saying, "It is only<br />

"that I and my wife went out^ to the country of<br />

"Karamin [which is situated] in the great mountains,<br />

"and certain men overpowered us,"* and slew my<br />

"friends, and carried off my wife, and my men-<br />

"servants and my maid-servants, and they captured<br />

"everything which I had with me. But I will go<br />

"back to my country, and to my mother, and I<br />

"will collect a large army and will recapture my<br />

"friends, and all my men, and I will lay waste<br />

^ Gr. KavbauXriq. The Syriac (p. 212, 1. 15) has Kandaros<br />

"^ They brought him to TTToXeiuaiaj to) KaXoujuevtu ^lujifipi;<br />

Mliller, p. 126, col. i.<br />

i In the Greek they were going out to the Amazons to<br />

celebrate their yearly mysteries.<br />

+ In the Gr. it was the Tupavvo? tujv BeppuKUJV who<br />

carried off the wife to his own country of Bebrukia.

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