Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

ALEXANDER'S FAREWELL TO THE GREEKS. 343
had come to see the king and to look upon him.
[And Alexander asked] why they had made [this]
outcry, and they told him of the coming of
the Macedonians, and of what they said. Then
Alexander commanded them to carry his bed and
to set it down between two doors, so that the
Macedonians might come to him by one door,
and look upon him, and go out by the other door,
for they were very many in number, and they
wished to fight by reason of their great' anguish.
Then he commanded all his soldiers to come into Alexander's
his presence clad in their suits [of armour]; and of his troops,
they all put on their armour, even as the king
had commanded them, and they came into his
presence. And he strengthened his heart, although
tears fell from his eyes, and all the soldiers wept
with so mighty a weeping that they say that the
sun wept also over the king who was so much
honoured. Now there was a certain man' there
who did not belong to Alexander's generals and The speech
whose name was Bukelas, and when he came up des.
to the king he said unto him,^ "Thy father Philip
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