Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

BY AL-MAKIN. 363
"and gather together thine enemies into thy hand."
Now the writer of the present chronicle saith
that Aristotle, the sage, did not travel with
Alexander, but Philemon, the wise man, who waspwiemon
one of his envoys, went with him to carry out ^^^"^''*'
and to arrange for him all these matters which
we have described. Now Philemon was a wise
and most excellent man, and he made to go forth the
orders, that is to say the doctrine, of Alexander's
guardian, who commanded him, when any of these
matters was too hard for him, to write and send
a letter to him, and [who promised] to give orders
about what should be done. And it came to pass
that, when Alexander saw that he was wise in all
things, he set him over all his kingdom, and he
administered it well.
Then Alexander gathered together all his soldiers, Alexander
and set out to do battle with Darius, the king ofpergj""
Persia. And when Darius heard that Alexander
had come to him he fortified for himself five
strongholds, and placed a general, who had with
him twelve thousand men, over each; and a turn'
at duty only came to each man every five days,
so great was the number of men in his army.
And when Alexander heard that he had fortified
himself in strongholds he rejoiced with an ex-
ceedingly great joy, and he sent unto him, saying,
"It is not meet and right for thee to entrench
"thyself within strongholds, and to carry on a war
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