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2/8 THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.<br />

He flies eagle, ^ and he arrived in the heights of the<br />

°,"./"bac^k heavens, and he explored them, and he saw the<br />

and through<br />

air.<br />

the<br />

gg^gj ^j^j jj^g ^ggj fhereof ,<br />

the beauties and<br />

the terrors thereof, and the stations of the birth<br />

and going forth of the stars, and he described<br />

thoroughly all these things in a great book which<br />

He writes he Called "The Book of the Works of the whole<br />

natural oT- "World". And he had knowledge concerning the<br />

^'"''^-<br />

stars, and he marked out the limits of the earth<br />

' See Pseudo-Callisthenes, Bk. ii. chap. 41 (Miiller, p. gi,<br />

col. 2). EiTa eXGujv auiog ev jaecruj toO Iujqv eKpujr]Ge<br />

TO &6pu Lucrei TrfJx'JV to |hitkO(; exov eTrdvuj fJTrap. EuGui;<br />

GUV dvaTTTdvTa Td opvea toO qjaxeiv to fiirap, dviiX9e |ueT'<br />

auTiJuv 6 'AXeSavbpoi; ev tuj depi ei

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