Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

ALEXANDER AND CANDACE. 205
"done that which I wish, and when thou hast
"performed that which I wish. And I will save thee,
"even as thou hast saved the life of my son from
"slaughter, and hast rescued his wife from the
"hand of her enemies; and moreover, I will call
"thee by the name Antigonus' until thou departest
"from this place. Now thou must not make thyself
"known to the wife of my eldest son, for she is
"the daughter of Porus, the king of India, and if
"she were to know that thou art the Two-horned
"she would slay thee even as thou didst slay her
"father. And behold I will call thee Antigonus
"[p. 117], the ambassador of the Two-horned."
Then' Candace took Alexander's hand and made
him to sit by her side on the couch, and she
embraced him, and she put on him the royal
crown; and he lay with her that day and that
night until the daybreak.
And^ Candace went out from the chamber and
sat upon her royal throne, and summoning her
servants she called for her son Candaules and for
his wife. [And when they had come] she said to
him, "O my son, and O thou my daughter* his
"wife, had it not been that God Almighty and candace ad-
^ Read h^h'im.^'i •'
^ There is no authority in the Greek for this paragraph.
3 See Pseudo-Callisthenes, Bk. iii. chap. 23 (Miiller, p. 133,
Meusel, p. 781).
^ Called in the Greek "Apnucrffa, and in the Syriac Ma-
lapsa rdoa^rwifl (p. 22 2, 1. 8).
dresses her
sons.