Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

388 THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT
people hold very different opinions: some say that
he had horns in very truth and that he hid them,
and some say that he was called "Two-horned"
because he reigned over the two horns of the sun,
from the East to the West.'
The writer of this chronicle saith:— And it came
to pass that when Darius the king of Persia, and
of Babylon, and of Nineveh, and of the other
countries round about, had reigned for a long time,
he heard that Alexander [p. 228] was reigning
over Roma (Greece), and being greatly enraged he
Darius in- wrote to him a letter about having occupied the
Indlr. ""kingdom without his permission; and he ordered
him to enter into subjection unto him, and he told
him that he must undertake to pay an annual tri-
bute. And when Alexander heard this he was
greatly grieved, and he took counsel with his
governors, and with one voice they advised him
to do battle with Darius. And besides [the nobles]
Alexander told Aristotle, his teacher, who said to
him, "Fight, for [thy] star is in the ascendant,
"and it sheweth clearly that thou shalt rule [over
the world];" so Alexander sent to Darius asking
him to appoint a season when he might bring
unto him gifts.
Aristotle ad- And Aristotlc spake unto Alexander, saying,
vises Alexander
to
fight,
^ See Mas'udtj torn. ii. p. 249, and above, p. 46. See also
Brit. Mus. MS. Or. No. 1337, fol. 1591^ 0^7^' 5^ i.j^-^.^
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