Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

2IO THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
Her gifts to—and she gave him sixty loads of gold and silver,
and a great number of horses, and mules, and
wild asses, which had been broken in and trained
to the yoke. And the son of Candace, whose wife
he had rescued, gave him a like number of things,
and Kanir gave him many gifts' that he might
deliver" the Two-horned unto him.
Kanir and Then^ Kanir and one thousand horsemen from
depart to- among the nobles of his army set out with him,
^'^*^"-
and they went forth followed [p. 120] by Candace,
who embraced him, and said unto him, "I have
"had a matter with thee, do thou keep it [ever]
"in remembrance;" and he departed and marched
The other gifts consisted of five elephants with their how-
dahs (£u\ivov xdcrTpov eTrdvuu kutujv), and four large silver
bells and eight men for each elephant. For the rest of the
paragraph there is no authority in the Greek.
' Read h9"^ ' Read ^aof?* :
3 The incident recorded in the following paragraph is
found neither in the Greek nor in the Syriac. In Pseudo-
CallistheneSj Bk. iii. chap. 24 (Miiller, p. 135, Meusel, p. 782)
Alexander marches to the hill where, as Candaules told him,
the gods lived. He offered sacrifices and went to the place
with a few soldiers. He saw a cloud of stars, and fiery
splendour, and certain forms of men, one of whom greeted
Alexander and told him that he was Sesonchosis, who had
become an associate of the gods. Alexander asked him how
many years of life were left to him, but the god gave him
no definite answer, and only told him that it was better for
a man not to know the day of his death. He foretells, how-
ever, that the town which Alexander shall found shall be
inhabited by him, both dead and alive, and that it shall be
his tomb.