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350<br />

THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.<br />

Then straightway they made him ready for<br />

burial, and they put him in the coffin and carried<br />

it on a waggon drawn by mules, and brought it<br />

to the city of Babylon of Egypt.' And as they<br />

were journeying therewith they arrived at Bare-<br />

His body man,'' and the people of Memphis and many of<br />

Mem^p'his.*°the people of the government of that city went<br />

out to receive the body of <strong>Alexander</strong> the king,<br />

the Macedonian, and [p. 204] they sang divine<br />

praises [unto him]. And as they were bringing<br />

him into Egypt and were carrying him round about<br />

from place to place and from district to district<br />

in the country, Sikises, the governor, and Kestes<br />

said unto Kinos,^ "Do not bury him here, but in<br />

"the city which he himself founded, for it is meet<br />

"that his body should lie in that city without fear.<br />

He is buried "and without disturbance, and without fighting,* for<br />

in Alexan-'<br />

dria.<br />

fought over his body, for the former people wished to take<br />

him to their country and to honour him under the form of<br />

the god Mithras, pou?i6|aevoi tov 'AXeHavbpov dvaKO|uicTacr-<br />

9ai Kai MiGpav dvaYOpeuffai; see Miiller, p. 150, col. 2, at<br />

the foot.<br />

' He was brought to Memphis in obedience to tlie words<br />

of the oracle which said:<br />

lori noXig iv Aiyutttuj Touvofia Mdjaqpni;,<br />

KoiKeT 6ei evOpovicrai toOtov (Miiller, p. 151, col. 1).<br />

' I. e., the town called by the Copts BApeMOyN or<br />

rTepEMOYN, by the Arabs UyJI, and by the Greeks<br />

Pelusium: see Amelineau, La Geograpliie de F Egypte, p.<br />

317-<br />

^ The Greek has Eirre be 6 dpxnrpocpiiTrii; Tii? Me|acpiTOU<br />

iepou; see Miiller, p. 151, col. i. t Read flJA,'l"l"A =

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