Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

lO THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
who was hidden in a place called' Sinope'' appeared
unto them, and spake unto them, saying, "Your
"king hath fled and he will not again return to
"Egypt, but henceforward [your king] shall be a
"young and not an old man. And he will lightly
"esteem every thing for the saving of his soul [p. 5]
"in peace". And these words were reported among
the Egyptians and they believed them.
And^ it came to pass after some days that"*
Nectanebus [arrived] in Macedonia and he became
well known ^ therein, and his fame was spread and
noised abroad, and the rumour of his history and
of the excellence of his knowledge reached Olympias
the queen, and she wished to enquire of him
and to find out from him concerning what had been
oiympias dccidcd upon by Philip her husband and concernine
consults . ,
Nectanebus. the matter of his putting her away by divorce.
So she sent to him, and Nectanebus came to her,
and she appeared in his presence in royaP raiment
of great price, and he marvelled at her beauty and
fair form, and his heart was ravished by her. And
he said to her, "Peace be upon thee, O queen of
' In the MS. H^rt'^A : altered into H^fioo^ :
" Meusel's text (p. 707) has 6 6e eTTe|ui(/£v auTOug bid
Xpr\ajiwbiaq -npbc, tov dtoparov toO Iivaimou.
3 See Pseudo-Callisthenes, Bk. i, chap. 4 (Muller, p. 4,
Meusel, p. 708).
The MS. has mn-^mi.ti '
5 I have translated as if the text had Wh^^O •
^ Read ^•7/*';J-> :