Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

BY JOSEPH BEN-GORION. 427
a deadly drug which he put for him' in his cup.^ Now
Alexander had before this been angry with his
cup-bearer^ and had punished him, therefore did
the cup-bearer take vengeance upon him and give
him poison to drink. And Alexander died at
Babylon, and Antapis"* put him in a coffin of gold
and took him to Alexandria, where he was buried.
Now the days of Alexander's [p. 252] life, until
he died, were thirty-two years. He began to fight
in battle when he was a boy fifteen years ^ old,
and he had subdued the whole earth, and the His reign.
kingdoms thereof when he was a young man
seven years old;'^ and he continued to conquer
until he died. Now, his birth took place at sunrise,
and his death happened at sunset,^' on the fourth
day of [the month] which is called by the Egypt-
ians of Misr Barmada,* and which in Ge'az [is
' Read it^U '
' According to the Hebrew the poison was so strong that
it would eat through any vessel made of iron, or brass, or
pottery, or glass; only a leaden vessel remained untouched by
it. iptn'? "'3 msiv '''?3D mii^iif') mnn ddo nptyon ns npT'i
inisnn 3n» ypaa nb itrx ••b:) n^n «•? JT'Dinn oin ^b:i^ ntrrai;
see Breithaupt, p. 150. 3 /. g,^ lollas, Heb. D1t