Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

BY JOSEPH BEN-GORION. 4I9
And it came to pass that Darius went to Matbin/ Darius
and he sent to Porus, the king of India, to help
him to make war upon Alexander. And when
Alexander knew this, he went to seek him, but
Darius' soldiers were afraid of Alexander, and as
they wished to make themselves friends of his by
writes to
Porus.
slaying Darius, they killed him. And when Alexan- Death of
der arrived there he found Darius lying prostrate °^"°'
[p. 247] with but little of the breath of life in him,
and he was grieved for him, and wept over him,
and he came down from his horse and lifted him
up from the ground, and he embraced him in his
bosom, and continued to cherish him until he died.
Then Alexander ordered that he should be buried
with great pomp and ceremony, and having laid
his body in a coffin they bore it away for burial;
and Alexander and the nobles of the Greeks went
before the body uttering cries of grief and sorrow,
until they buried it in the tombs of the kings ofAiexander
Persia, and then Alexander ordered the men who k,^„" of'per.
had slain him to be slain. Thus Alexander sub-
dued all the kingdom of Darius, and he conquered
the Persians, and they submitted unto him, and
there was not left among them any who resisted him.
And it came to pass that, when Alexander had
ended his fighting, and had vanquished and sub-
dued the kingdom of Persia, he marched to the
country of India, and the king of India went forth Alexander
to meet him with a large army and with a great
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