Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

200 THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
food for them to eat and wine for them to drink
— Candaules said to his mother, "O my mother,
"make prosperous the way^ of Antigonus, and
"hasten, I pray thee, his departure to his master;"
and she consented," and they slept there that night.
And it came to pass on the morrow that she
commanded that no one should come into her
abode. Then she took Antigonus by the hand and
candace Icd him into her chamber^now there was no
^th^Aiex-one with them except their two selves—and she
ander p"- iqq]^ him, and embraced him in her guest-chamber,
vately.
' ^3 '
and spake unto him, saying, "O thou Two-horned
"one, I am queen Candace." Now there was in
that house a chamber which was built of stone
like unto the heavens, the splendour of which
dazzled whosoever entered therein, and a man
would imagine that the rising sun was shininsf
in it, and the floor of the chamber was made of
red wood which fire could not burn, nor [p. 114J
rain make to rot, nor the wood-worm bore through.
Now the chamber was very large, and it sent forth
rays of light, and sparkled like a mirror. And
the house had foundations [laid] upon [beams of]
^ I. e , give him great gifts 6i66bai TUJ diYYe'^UJ 'AXeEdv-
bpou aEia rf\q auTou cppovnffeaic; &iLpa (Miiller, p. 132, col. i).
^ Read ffl/iir :
^ The Greek is KavbaKii e&eiKvuev auruj KOiTiiJvaq biav-
•feTq eg depiTou Xi9ou, ujcTTe tov fiXiov uirovotiv evbov dva-
TeXXeiv bid tujv fiapiuapuYuJv. 'Ev auToTi; be rpiKXivog it
djuidvTLUv £uXijuv, airep ecrriv daiiTrTa Kai uKauara uno rrupoi;
(Miiller, p. 132, col. i).