Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

292 THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
the marvellous gifts which were given unto him,
have inherited [their knowledge from them]. Now
there was given unto him every country into which
he came, from the eastern part of the sun ['s course]
even unto the western part thereof, and the moun-
tains, and whatsoever lay between them. And he
His con- marched among the Arab nations, and he defeated
quests.
(-}^gjj- assembled hosts cunningly, and he scattered
their armies, and he slew their mighty men. And
he made their tribes to be his servants, and he
reigned over all the earth, and heaped up therein
riches. And he passed over rivers and seas,
and he knew the extent of the span of the heavens,
and the stations of the stars; and concerning the
sun and the moon he made calculations about
His learn- thcif seasous, and about their risings, and ascensions,
ing.
and settings, and their months, and their days, and
their hours, and their differences, that the know-
ledge thereof might be profitable unto men of
understanding^ , and
become knowledge and in-
struction for men of learning. And as concerning
the fact that God Almighty gave him under-
standing in the matter of Gos: and Mag-osT, and
that' He directed him in the matter of the seal
which he set upon those nations, and that He
willed him to imprison them for those who should
come after him until the advent of God Almight)',
these things came to pass by God's decree, for
He made Alexander to be feared more than any
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