Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

XLVI INTRODUCTION.
Letter to i" scveral places in the Ethiopia legends concerning
oiympias.
j^j^^^ ^^^ j.]-^g p^j-j- jj. ^f j^ -v^fhich He tells her to
make a feast and to invite many guests, and when
they have assembled to say to them, "Let every
"man upon whom trouble hath not fallen partake
"of this food", became famous throughout the east.'
Both Al-Makin and Abu Shaker give the text of
twenty of the sayings which were uttered over
Alexander's body by the sages of Alexandria, and
these probably represent a selection of those which
were actually declaimed, for Mas'udi gives twenty-
eight and Eutychius thirty" (p. 379). At the end
Works
tributed
Aristotle,
of his section
at- several works
to . .
on
by
Alexander Al-Makin refers
Aristotle, and to some of ... .
to
his
reputed saymgs on justice and sovereignty;^ among
' The story as told by Bar-Hebraeus in his "Laughable
Stories" runs:— oooi.TUaa^K' >.xiI,A^Am^ .T^.T r