Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

BY JOSEPH BEN-GORION. 405
shouts and cries of the people and asked what
was the cause of this matter; and they told him
what had happened to his father. Then Alexander
went to his father quickly, and found him prostrate
and half dead, and his mother a prisoner in the Alexander
hands of Fures the nobleman, and Alexander slew
Fures/ And it came to pass that Philip died from
his wounds, and Alexander his son reigned after Death of
him, being twenty years old; and he was of a
wise and understanding nature,^ and the name of
the teacher who taught him was Aristotle the sage.
Now the appearance of Alexander was not like Alexander's
unto that of his father and mother,^ and'^ it is
said that his face was like the face of a lion; his
eyes, too, were dissimilar, for the right eye was
black and looked downwards, and his left eye
resembled exactly that of an eagle, and it looked
upwards. His teeth were long and narrow like
the teeth of a dog, and he was strong and bold
from his youth.
And it came to pass that when Alexander had
' This story is based upon that told in Pseudo-Callis-
thenes, Bk. i. chap. 24, where, however, the would-be lover
of Olympias is called Pausanias, who, having been brought
into Philip's presence by Alexander, is slain by the dying
king.
^ Read h'gT '
3 See Bk. ii. chap. 12 (p. 102 at the foot), and chap. 14
(p. 114).
4 The words H.T ' hCh^lh • hhtlln'if^C • are pro
bably a marginal note which has crept into the text.