Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

BY AN ANONYMOUS WRITER. 43
"that which hath passed away' even as it followeth
"in the track of that which hath gone before. Do
"thou, then, O lady, array thyself in patient en-
"durance as with strong: armour of iron. And
"fear thou not, neither be dismayed, and grieve
"not, but make thou a great feast and bid [all]
"people to be gathered together to thee, and when
"they have assembled let a herald go round about
"[among them], saying, 'Let no man who hath been
"attacked by sorrow taste of this food;' and then
"shalt thou know that consolation lieth in my
"words." And he sealed the letter and sent it to
his mother. And he commanded Philemon, the
general of his host, to hide his death [from his
mother], and to travel [to her] with all speed; and
after a few days he died and came to his fathers. Death of
Glory be to God Almighty, the Living God, Who
dieth not.
And it came to pass that when the letter
reached his mother [p. 255] she made a feast even The feast of
as he had said, and she bade [all] men to come to
it and those upon whom sorrow had not come to
partake of it, but no man drew nigh to partake
thereof; then she knew of a certainty that there
was no man in the world who was without sorrow.
And Philemon, the captain of the host, made
Alexander's body ready for burial, and he pre-
served it with aloes,^ and laid it in a golden coffin, Alexander
and poured the honey of bees over it; then he ,e1andria.
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