Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

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THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
Arus, Kesendros, Lisimikos, Elkiyas, Philip, Har-
kalidos, Aristan, Netan, Akstos, Umanes, Akru-
markes, Serseyus, Atren, and Namnata the king.
Now Ptolemy, and Kebas, and Lysimachus, and
Lemanos, and Kesenderos knew what was to be
done,' but the rest of them knew nothing whatever
about it, although they were ready and willing to
join in it; they feared Alexander, however, because
of the great strength which he possessed. And
it came to pass that when Alexander had sat
down with them and they had made him drink
with them one cup, lollas gave' him a certain
bitter and poisonous drug to drink, which they
are wont to give to those who sit long over their
wine, and the report [of what he had done] went
round the banqueting chamber in a brief space
Alexander of time. And the poison spread through Alexander's
is poisoned.
^'bowels, and he shrieked with the pain in his belly
and liver, and the men present knew what had
been done to him; and although the pain was
sore upon him when he rose up [to go out from
the chamber] he gave orders that drink should
be given unto those who sat at table there. Now^
' In the Greek just the opposite, for Perdiccas, Ptolemy,
Olcius, Lysimachos, Eumenios and Cassander know nothing,
ouK rjbeicrav, of the conspiracy, but all the others did.
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TTpoffTTecrdvToi; biarpipii? eveKev Kal 6ie\r)Xu96Toq iKavoO
Xpovou Ktti iTbii ToO TTOTOU TtapeKTeivavTOs, eTrebuiKev 6
NoXXac; erepov TroTiipiov e'xov to 9dp|uaK0v; see Miiller,
p. 146, col. I.