Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

BY ABU-SHAKER. 39/
therein, together with his troops, and that when
he had come forth from the sea he took the
ships to pieces with which he loaded camels for
transport.
The writer of this chronicle saith:—Alexander
ruled from the East even unto the West, and he
abolished thirty and five kings, and obtained the
dominion over their kingdoms, and the soldiers
in his army amounted in number to [p. 234] six
hundred thousand horsemen. And he founded a
city in the country of Egypt, and called it Alexandria Founding of
after his own name. Then he turned aside to
Babylon to impose tribute upon it, and it is said
that the orovernor of Macedonia sent his servant
to Alexander to make him drink poison and to
kill him, because of the evil which he had done
unto him. Then this young man went and made
a compact with the chief cup-bearer, who gave
Alexander the poison to drink mixed in his drink Alexander
when he was drunk, and he drank it. And when''°'^°"^ '
he perceived that he must die he sent a letter to
his mother, saying, "Know thou, O lady, that we
"in the world are like unto this fleeting day which
"succeedeth yesterday. Sorrow not, but make a
"grreat feast and gather tosj-ether all sorts of men
"and say unto them, Whosoever hath been attacked His letter to
"by sorrow let him not eat of this repast. Then ^'"^^'
"straightway shalt thou know that there is con-
"solation in my words." And he sealed the letter
and sent it to his mother, and he ordered Philemon,
the captain of his host, to hide his death [from