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THE YEARS OF ALEXANDER. 35 I<br />

"no earthly king whatsoever conquered <strong>Alexander</strong><br />

"the king."' So Ptolemy built a tomb for him<br />

[in Alexandria], and laid the body of <strong>Alexander</strong><br />

the king in it.<br />

And^ it came to pass that all the days of the<br />

life of <strong>Alexander</strong> were thirty-seven^ years. And<br />

he began the work of war when he was a boy<br />

fifteen years old, and he conquered all kings and<br />

destroyed them, and those which he left unde-<br />

stroyed became subject unto him; twenty and<br />

two foreign nations accepted his yoke, and thirteen<br />

[Greek] nations.* He founded twelve^ cities [which<br />

' ^Qbe auTOV ]uri Kaeubpi'cTriTe, dWd dq r\v eKTiffev ttoXiv<br />

ev Trj 'PaKuuTibr ottou ydp av ^ to ad)|Lia toOto, dKaTdcna-<br />

TO? f) TToXii; eKeivrj ecriai, iroXeiuoig Kai |iidxai .^NJl), Alexan-<br />

dria Sogd {^>J:iy,^ ,_yb^ .>Xl)l >^y^), Alexandria Merv<br />

{^y^ ^_3 ^^'yo), Alexandria on the rivers in India

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