Budge_Ethiopic_Alexander

12 THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.
"heaven: but I have full knowledge of all these
"thing's."
And after [he had spoken] these things he gazed
at Olympias with an angry and terrible eye, and
she said unto him, "Why dost thou look at me
"with such a terrible gaze?" And he said unto
her' [p. 6j, "I call to mind what [once] happened
"to me, and how my god spake unto me, saying,
"There shall come to thee a royal person ^ and I
"made certain that these words were true when I
"came unto thee , for thou art a queen , and thou
"hast dominion in thee. Ask me now what thou
"wouldst, and I will tell thee concerning that which
"thou askest". Then he put his hand into his
bosom and brought forth a golden table [studded]
with precious stones, and upon it were inscribed
The table the cmblems of the seven planets which were
Tets.' ''^""set over the hours-' of the night and day. Now
their names were these:— Jupiter,* which was [a
' Read fflJE-ILA -
^ According to the Greek we should read 'i1/^''l' s
for iT-/^ :
i Read M^-'l' •
* In the Greek text of Muller (p. 5, col. i) the sun was
represented by a crystal, the moon by a diamond, Jupiter
by a beryl (aepivoc,), Saturn by a serpentine stone, Aphrodite
by a sapphire, and Mercury by an emerald, but no mention
is made of Mars; in Meusel's text all seven planets are
mentioned. In the Syriac text, as Prof Margoliouth and
M. Duval have pointed out, the name of Saturn is omitted;
see Classical Review, June 1890, p. 259, ^x^A Notes de Lexico-
grapliie Syriaque et Arabe, Paris, 1893, p. 12. The names