Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

THE HISTORY OF THE DEATH
OF
ALEXANDER THE MACEDONIAN
BY
AN ANONYMOUS WRITER.
The writer of this history saith:—And it came
to pass that when Alexander had become king
over all kingdoms, from the east even unto the
west, all kings submitted unto him, and became
subject unto him. And his soldiers amounted in Alexander's
number to six hundred thousand horsemen, andcquests"
he founded two hundred great cities, some of which
are in the east, and some of which are in the
west, and he founded a city on the Egyptian sea
and called it Alexandria, after his own name; and
he forded rivers, and made rafts, and passed over
seas. He blotted out forty and four kings, and
obtained dominion over their kingdoms. And he
turned aside to Babylon to see the works there,
and to direct the affairs of the city, and they gave not to suy
him poison to drink. It is said that the man who ^''^" "'
poisoned him was he who had been appointed
prefect of Macedonia by Alexander, and that he
did so because Alexander's mother had written
and sent to her son a letter of accusation against