Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

ALEXANDER LAID IN PEACE. 353
sunset,' and for this reason that day is called the
"failing of the hours" because of the death of
Alexander^ [p. 205] and [the end of] the labours
of his youthful age. And they laid his body in
the new city in the peace^ of God Almighty, Amen.
And glory be unto the Bestower of gifts.
^ The Greek says that it was new moon when he died,
veo|urivta, buaeuug ouffrig toO f|Xiou.
^ The Greek is Ktti eKct\r|crav rriv f)|Liepav if\c, TeXeuTfli;
auToO v€0|ariviav 5id tov 'AXeSavbpov veov TereXeuxriKevai;
Miiller, p. 151, coL 2. The Syriac version has, "The name
of the day was called. The slayer of young men, for
Alexander was a young man," but the Latin states merely,
"Obitus autem ejus diem etiam nunc Alexandriae sacratissimum
habent."
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