Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

2 20 THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
spoken with them he went to seek the sea, but
he was unable to approach unto the great' sea
which surrounds the whole world; and it came to
pass after these things that, desiring exceedingly
[to go thither], he spake unto them, saying, "Verily,
"ye have lied unto me in what ye have said, but
"I am determined to go and to see [it], even
Alexander's "though yc did not see^ [it], and also to see all
tion to con- "thc klugs who are in all the ends of the world.
Torid.
*^"^f I fi'^d any kings stronger than myself^ by the
"help of God Almighty Who hath given me do-
"minion over them, I will slay them, and I will carry
"off their possessions after I have defeated them.
"And, moreover, if I find any strong nation which
"is wont to go forth against me, and to slay men,
"and to lay waste their countries, as it hath been
"said, I will build between us and between them
"an iron building."
And it came to pass when he had said these
things that the men set out, and he gave them
orders [to speak] unto all the peoples in this wise,
and he spake unto them, saying, "Sound the
"trumpets;" and all his troops were gathered
The number together unto him, both footmen and horsemen,
of his army. , ^
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and he took their chosen men, and their mighty
' Read ^n.^ :
"" According to the Syriac we ought to read /i.CAv.h'"*" '
for that version has, "but although ye went and the sea did
not give you a passage to cross, yet I too will go and see
all the ends of the heavens" (p. 146).
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