Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

III.
THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT ACCORDING
TO JOHN MADABBAR.
(See Zotenberg, Chronique de Jean, liveque de Nikiou,
pp. 57, 58, 282, 283.)
Now when Alexander, the son of Philip the
Macedonian, had become king, he founded the
great city of Alexandria in the country of Egypt,
and he called it Alexandria after his own name
now the old name of the place was in the language
of the Egyptians "Rakoti." And after this he
made war against the country of Persia. And
he came to the border of Europe {?), and founded
there a place wherein to gather together his
soldiers and all his armies; here he eave much
money to the generals of his army, and to all
his governors, and to the multitudes of his soldiers
and he called that place Chrysopolis, and thus it
is called by all the Byzantines. And when Alexan-
der made war against Persia, he slew multitudes
of Darius' army and exterminated them. Then
he took all Darius' kingdom and ruled over it,
and he also captured his daughter, who was called
Roxana, and she was a virgin, and he married
her and did no evil unto her. And he treated
graciously the Abyssinian queen, whose name
was Candace, because of her wisdom and under-