Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

RAI AMAN THE SCRIBE. 293
Other king, but [p. 169] he himself feared no man.
He was an example for him that can imitate him,
and a memorial to be commemorated, ' and a thing
of profit unto him that desireth profit in what he
seeth and heareth.
And there was a certain man among Alexander's Alexander's
scribes who was called Rahaman. Now he was^f""." ^^'
a man of wisdom and of understanding, and he
was a great man and an honourable, and there
was none greater than he with Alexander, for the
glorious God had placed in his heart knowledge,
and wisdom, and understanding, and he was associated
with Alexander in all his works. And it came to
pass that when Alexander had made an end [of
conquering] all the countries which had been given
unto him, he marched therein and wrought signs
and wonders; and he went on and arrived in the
country of El- Irak, ^ and was smitten there with
the sickness by which he perished. And he knew
and perceived by his calculations that he was Alexander
about to die, and he called unto his scribe //Jh com-
Rahaman, and spake unto him, saying, "Look thou'"^-
"upon me with thine eye and behold me, and with
"thine ear^ do thou hearken unto me, and open
"thine understanding to what I am about to say
"and to tell unto thee; peradventure I may find rest
p. TTA.
^ Read Mi-ilYl^ =
^ I. e., ^\f^\, a part of Mesopotamia. See Yakut;, tor
3 Read fldli^il •