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ALEXANDER AND CANDAULES. 1 95
"Let us then tarry in this place until the evening,
"and when it is dark we will enter the city. And
"when we have come thither we will set it on fire,
"and we will cry out to the people to bring out The strata-
"the woman whom they have taken from thee.
"If they will not do this we will burn up with fire
"all their country, and we will slay every man of
"them that we find. But when they see that the
"slaughter of men and burning with fire have come
"upon their city they will bring out the woman,
"being smitten with fear and trembling."
Now when he said these things to the son ofcandauies
Candace he rejoiced and did homage unto him lexander.'
even to the ground, and he said unto him, "O
"man, behold great honour should be given unto
"thee, and the kingdom of the Two-horned one
"should, by rights, belong unto thee;" and when
i\.lexander heard his speech he laughed at him.
So they came to the city by night, none knowing The city set
of their arrival, and they set fire to it. Now when
the men of the city discovered this they asked
who had set fire to it, and it was told to them
that Candaules, the son of queen Candace, had
arrived, together with a great number of soldiers
who had with them the chief counsellor of Alexander,
to recapture the woman who had been carried
away captive, and that if she were not restored
to him they would burn them and their city
with fire, and that they would pour out [p. iii]
their blood like water. And when the men of
the city saw these things they rose up against
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