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206 THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.<br />

"the Two-horned had loved this man Antigonus, I<br />

"should never have seen you again, and ye would<br />

"never have come back to me; now therefore<br />

"deal graciously with him and send him' away."<br />

Now when she had spoken these words Kanir,"<br />

the eldest son of Candace, rose up and said to<br />

her, "Behold, O my mother, notwithstanding<br />

"that the Two-horned hath dealt graciously with<br />

"my brother and hath rescued his wife,^ yet my<br />

"wife is angry because the Two-horned hath slain<br />

candauies' "her father Porus, and she wisheth to slay this<br />

brother<br />

would slay "mau who is his ambassador for her father's sake."<br />

And Candace his mother said unto him, "What<br />

"benefit will it be to thee, and what advantage<br />

"canst thou hope for if thou slayest his ambassador?<br />

"For his .death will not make the Two-horned<br />

"wrathful, and dost thou imagine that no other<br />

"man can be found like unto this ambassador in<br />

"[all] his army.'' [I tell thee that] he will be grieved<br />

"in no way at what befalleth him, having once<br />

"sent him away to us." Then Candauies said to<br />

his brother, "I will not agree with thee to slay<br />

"the man who hath saved my life and who hath<br />

"restored my beloved wife to me; nay, it is<br />

"seemly for me to honour him." Then Kanir<br />

' Read Wd.'iaf'?' •<br />

^ Called in the Syriac (p. 222, 1. 12) ioaf\r

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