Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

532 THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
and of the rich, she said unto the people, "Can
"I find any one of whom no kinsman hath died,
"and obtain from him water wherewith I may
"make a feast and so save my son Alexander
"from death?" But she found him not, for death
had gotten dominion over all the race of men.
One said, "My father is dead," and another said,
"My mother is dead," and another said, "My child
"is dead," and another said, "My kinsman is dead,"
and they all, each and every one, told her that
some of their kinsfolk were dead; and from him,
moreover, with whom she found a dead body,
she returned without asking her question. Then
Olympias went back to her house to rest herself
from her fatigue, and she meditated [p. 335] in
her heart, saying, "Is there no house in which I
"can find that death hath not entered? Is there
"no man to be found of whom some kinsman
"hath not died?" And thus thinking, her mind,
which had been greatly disturbed, returned to its
natural state, and she said, "My son, in his wisdom,
"hath sent me this message that I migrht comfort
"myself for his death; but I say, O my son, that
The lament "cvery man hath a dead [kinsman]." And straight-
as. *'"'"' way she cried out and fell down on the earth,
and she made lamentation with loud cries and
wept, but afterwards when she had comforted
herself, she said, "I give thanks unto God Al-
"mighty, for although my son is dead he shall
"live in Him. For he kept his body pure and
"undefiled, and he wrought the will of his Lord,