Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

262 THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
said unto him, "I know not. But ask of the men
"who are heirs of the knowledge thereof and who
"have read books, peradventure they have the
"knowledge by them."
Alexander Now, haviug asked the angel these things, the
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Two-horned departed and returned to his followers,
and returning he passed over that same water
and through the darkness until he came to the
light of the sun, and to that place and to the
little mountain which was between him and between
Yagug (Gog) and Magug (Magog). So the Twohorned
marched on foot to his followers, and when
his friends saw him they rejoiced in him, for they
thought that he had been devoured in the desert.
The Greeks Now whlle they were tarrying there behold their
victuals came to an end, and they had nothing to
eat, and their beasts lacked fodder, and they
suffered sorely from famine. And when they saw
the Two-horned they cried out with a mighty voice,
saying, [p. 151] "O king, thou Two-horned one,
"help us, for behold we and our animals are
"perishing of thirst and hunger; hadst thou de-
"layed in coming unto us one day longer we all
"should have died of hunger." Then the Two-
horned called them and grathered them all together,
and they thought that Alexander had done this
because he wished to count them; and he gave
Alexander Linto each of them a grape from the bunch [which
feeds themj-j-^g an^el had oriven to himl. And it came to
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miraculous pass that as he cut one grape from the bunch,
grapes. , . ^
another grew up in the place thereof; thus he