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THE FEAST OF OLYMPIAS 3O7<br />

"of kings, that the man in whose heart there hath<br />

"entered sorrow, and the woman in whose heart<br />

"there hath entered pain, shall not eat of my<br />

"meat."'<br />

And <strong>Alexander</strong>'s mother' did this even as she<br />

had been ordered to do by Aristotle. And it<br />

came to pass that when all those who were at<br />

the feast heard the speech of the mother of<br />

<strong>Alexander</strong>, they took up their hands from their<br />

meat, and they all said, "There is not one of us<br />

"into whom sorrow hath not entered." Then the°iyp'^=<br />

addresses<br />

mother of <strong>Alexander</strong> said unto them, "Why then, her guests,<br />

"should I feed drunken men? for I thought it<br />

"was so. There hath come upon them sorrow<br />

"without end, and as it hath come upon them<br />

"even so hath it come upon me. Of what ad-<br />

"vantage is it for me, or for you, to take pleasure<br />

"in procuring the meat which is to be eaten in<br />

"bitterness, since sorrow hath laid hold upon my<br />

"soul? Or what profiteth it me if I see all the<br />

"house filled with gladness, for behold, I perceive<br />

"that it belongeth to the fleeting world? Now our<br />

"world passeth away and changeth into another,<br />

"for everything vanisheth in its season and the<br />

"glory thereof departeth; and it is good for a<br />

"man [to say], 'Holy, Holy, Holy, Lord God of<br />

"Hosts, Who maketh to die every living creature<br />

"which hath put on flesh, and Who is the Living<br />

"One, the Immortal God.' Every nurse reareth<br />

' Read h"^ »<br />

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