The History of Ancient Greece Its Colonies And Conquests From the Earliest Ac
The History of Ancient Greece Its Colonies And Conquests From the Earliest Ac
John Gillies
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Olymp. Cxiv. I. A. C. 324. Cond declaration, " That it became not a prince to deceive his peo- ple, nor a people to fuppofe their prince capable of deceit. " Faith- ful lifts were immediately prefented, and the whole debts difcharged, to the amount, it is faid, of four millions fterling. This event was accompanied by a tranfaction of a different kind, which difcovers, however, the fame fpirit, and which equally en- deared Alexander to his Afiatic fubjects. In the royal palace of Sufa, he public...ly efpoufed Barcine 3 ", the daughter of Darius ; and bellowed her filter Drypetis on his friend Hephceftion, faying, that he wifhed their children to be k-infmen. By the advice of their mafter, Per- diccas, Seleucus, Ptolemy, and other generals, intermarried with the mod illuftrious of the vanquifhed Barbarians. The foldiers were en- couraged by prefents, and by the hope of royal favour, to follow the example of their leaders ; and it appeared from the catalogue of their names, prefented to the king, that above ten thoufand Greeks and Macedonians married Afiatic women '*.
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