Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

2 THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
is Jupiter ^^XJ^\. The second clime includes Sind^ India,
and the Sudan: its Zodiacal sign is Capricornus ^_^J^\i\,
and its planet Saturn J-^J. The third clime includes Mecca,
Medina, Yaman, Taif, Hijaz, and the country between: its
Zodiacal sign is the Scorpion ( ijisJI, and its planet Venus
is'yt^l. The fourth clime includes Egypt, Africa, Berber, Spain,
and the countries lying between: its Zodiacal sign is Gemini
1j_js.tJI, and its planet is Mercury >j\L.i. The fifth clime
includes Syria, Rum, and Mesopotamia: its Zodiacal sign
is Aquarius yioJ\, and its planet the Moon j-»Xll. The sixth
clime includes the country of the Turks, Khazars, Delemites,
and the Slavs : its Zodiacal sign is Cancer ,^LL -.^l, and its
planet Mars ^.j^\. The seventh clime includes the countries
of Del and China: its Zodiacal sign is the Scales c:,\j^\
and its planet the Sun ^_;r^M^^Jl. See Mas'irdi, ed. Barbier
de Meynard, tom. i. pp. i8i, 182; Geographic d'Aboulfeda,
ed. Reinaud tind MacGuckin de Slane, Paris, 1840, pp. 7, 8.
3 hAA^mA • (read h^kltnti :) = ttovto? + the
Arabic article a/: the Ethiopic translator considers it to be
a proper name.
* /. e., the volume containing the History of Alexander
which belonged to the Church of the Holy Saviour of the
World at Makdala. A very large number of the MSS. brought
by the British Army from Ethiopia in 1868 have scrawled
upon their fly-leaves H^-.^.A : an^^i. : "ihT "' "belonging
to the Holy Saviour of the World", and the style of writing
shows that these words were added some time after the MSS.
were written. For years before the English expedition into
Abyssinia, Theodore had been carefully collecting MSS. from
churches all over his country to form the library of the
church which he intended to build in honour of the Redeemer
of the World; this church was, however, never built. The
old Church of the Redeemer of the World at Makdala stood,
with the treasury and granaries, on one side of the open
square which lay almost halfway between Kaffir-bir gate
and Koket-bir gate, but nearer the former than the latter. It