Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

CANDACE'S GIFTS TO ALEXANDER. 2O9
"unto thee;" and Kamr increased the amount ofKanir promoney
and the number of cities which he had great gifts.
promised' to give to Alexander. And Alexander
said unto him, "Thou shalt not consider me false
"when I deliver this Two-horned one into" thy hand."
And queen Candace marvelled at his knowledge,
and at his astuteness, and at his skill in making
false excuses, and at his power of overcoming candaces
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11* *i 1 admiration
men by crait, and agam she took him aside, and for Aiexan-
said unto him, "O thou Two-horned,^ thou dost"*"'
"conquer men by slaughter, and by counsel, and
"by false excuses." Then she gave him the royal
crown which she had put on at the time when
she sat by his side when they were alone together
—now the eye of man had never before seen
such a crown—and she gave him her golden couch
which was studded with precious stones, upon
which he had lain with her; and [she gave him]
the glorious raiment in which she had slept [with
him]; together with everything that was of value
in her abode. And she gave him a cloak (?) wrought
with gold, upon which were inscribed figures of
the sun, and moon, and stars, and all the hosts of
heaven—now it was set with gems of great price ''
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« In the Greek Candace gave him crxecpavov d5a|LidvTivov
TToXuTiiuov Kai eiLpaKa 6id XiGtuv Kai pnpu^J^i^v Kai )i}.a\x\iha.
dcrTepocpeTTn oXouopcpupov 6id xpucroO (Miiller, p. 135, col.
i), but the Ethiopian translator seems to have mixed up to-
gether the descriptions of the breastplate and of the cloak.
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