Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

BY AL-MAKIN. 367
ones in their places with patience and quietness
for some days in the presence of the messenger.
Then he said unto the messenger, "Make known
"unto Alexander that which thou hast seen me Aristotle's
"doing unto these trees and plants, for just as"''^'
"[all] diseases are' not the same, even so the
"means for healing every sickness are not the
"same; everything which I have told thee, [go]
"tell unto Alexander:" so the messenger went
[p. 215] to Alexander and told him everything
which had taken place and which he had seen.
Then Alexander understood, and he quickly removed
the governors of Babylon, and appointed
others from his army in their places; and this
thing became well known, and kings act in this
manner unto this day.
[And the writer of this chronicle] saith:— After Alexander
these things Alexander went to the country of" '"*^'
India to fight'' against the Indians. And he gathered
together the nobles of his king-dom and took counsel
with them, and they advised him to send on Sal-
keroyus the captain of his host, and he made ready
and sent with him companies of soldiers, and
everything which he required in the matter of
arms, and money; then he set out and arrived
in the country of India. And it came to pass
that when Alexander's messenger had arrived there,
he sent to them his messenger and told them con-
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