Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

406 THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT
Alexander become Icino; ovcr the Greeks he made them to
to^attMk the hold him in exceeding reverence. And he de-
pers.ans.
tcrmined to make war against Darius, but first of
all he did battle with all those nations who lived
round about his kingdom, both near and afar off,
until he had made them all to submit unto him,
and he appointed certain of his ministers [to rule]
over them.
And next Alexander marched to the country
of the west, and conquered it, and he tarried there
until he made the peoples to submit to him, and
he made a treaty with them with mighty oaths,
and he took certain of their warriors and made
them chiefs of his army. And when he had done
these things [p. 239] and there were no [other
nations] left to fight with [there], he marched
against the peoples who were under the dominion
of Darius, and made war upon them; and as he
Alexandria was joumeying to the country of Syria he opened
founded. i ^ .... . ,
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up places tor unloadmg snips, that is to say, ports
for ships, on the shore of the sea.
Then he marched against the place of the
Sanctuary' in order to make war upon the Jews
because they were under the dominion of Darius.
Anangeiap- And it camc to pass that as he was journeying
Alexander, aloug the Way he saw a man of pleasing coun-
tenance, and he was dressed in white apparel, and
he had a sharp sword in his hand which glittered
' /. e., Jerusalem. The Hebrew has D^'jtJ'IT':' ni'^J?'? ViS DtTM:
see Bk. ii. chap. vi. (p. 85).