LIFE OF ALEXANDER

The most learned Egyptians who know the size of the
earth, the waves of the sea, and the order of the heavens
(betokening the way of the stars and the turning of the
[4] skies), have bequeathed these things to the whole world through the highness and the wisdom of magic knowledge. And they tell
of a king of that land, by name Anectanabus, great in under-
standing, and full of love in astrology and mathematics. Nowm
[8] upon a day it happened that a messenger came, and said unto him that Artaxers, king of the Persians, was drawing nigh
towards him with a very great force of foes. Yet he did not
call out his army, noe get ready his advance. Instead of this,
[12] he hurried into his bed-chambers in his palace, and, taking down
a brazen shell, which was full of rain-water, and holding in his
hand a brazen rod, sought by magic spells to summon the
devils. by which wizardly he felt, in the shell itself, the fleets
[16] sailing over hum amid fearful affray.

Now