Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

ALEXANDER IS POISONED. 34
they were all afraid and none of them rose up
[to go] with him to minister unto him.
Then Alexander sent [for one to come] to make
him sick that he might be better afterwards, and
he demanded [of him] the feather of a bird, and
he dipped it in the poison and handed it to
Alexander, and by reason of this thing the [power] His suffer-
of the poison was much increased, and it passed'"^'
into his whole body. And it came to pass that
Alexander perceived that his pain increased greatly
during the night, nevertheless he [p. ig8] strengthen-
ed his courage, but on the morrow he saw that he
was indeed in evil case, and that he was unable to
speak with his tongue. Then he sent away all
his servants from him in order that he might have
a little rest from his pain and suffering. And
Cassander told his friends by night what had
come upon Alexander, and lollas sent Lysimanderioiias sends
to Macedonia to Antipater' his father, and he success to
wrote a message in shorthand,' saying, 'Behold,
the deed is done.'
Now Alexander was unable to sleep that night,
and when the day broke he ordered that none of
his servants should stay with him in the chamber
to minister unto him, and, moreover, he did not
command his wife Roxana to come there to him.
And there was in the palace a place where there
was a door which led out to the Euphrates,^ and
' The MS. has Ki'^h'Vi^ • ' • rt.'TL'J = ar\\xe\ov.
J See the passage in Miiller, p. 146, note 1, beginning,
Tov Ka\ou)uevov Eucppctiiiv.
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