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380 THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT<br />

"of consolation to me for <strong>Alexander</strong> whom I feared,<br />

"and now it hath happened that we have no<br />

"victorious king left unto us. He conquered the<br />

"world before he conquered you, therefore ascribe<br />

"righteousness to yourselves; and now, I have<br />

"accepted your words of consolation."<br />

The burial Then Olympias commanded them to bury him/<br />

der. and they buried him in the city of Alexandria at<br />

the end of the five thousand two hundred and<br />

thirty-seventh year from the creation of the world.""<br />

And the number of the days of <strong>Alexander</strong> were<br />

seventy-two years; he was sixteen^ years old<br />

when he began to reign, and he reigned fifty-<br />

six* years. Now the Patriarch of Rum,^ Batariku,<br />

also sayeth thus, but Said the son of ibn-Batrik,*^ and<br />

Walda Manakos' say that the number of his days<br />

' According to Mas'udij torn. ii. p. 259, Olympias had the<br />

body taken out of the gold coffin and dipped in pitch, and<br />

afterwards laid in a marble sarcophagus j-* J»l ^^

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