The Third book of History: Containing Ancient History in Connection With ...
The Third book of History: Containing Ancient History in Connection With ...
Goodrich, Samuel G. (Samuel Griswold), 1793-1860
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5. The whole country resounded with music and bacchanalian songs, and large casks of wine were placed sJong the road, of which the soldiers and people drank in profusion. At Ecbatana, he continued to celebrate feasts and games, and abandoiod himself to pleasures and excess. Here h^a favorite Hephsestion died, and was mourned by Alexander as a brother. He celebrated his funeral obsequies at Babylon with a magnificence almost incredible, and then offered sacrifices to him as a god. 6. He proceede...d to beautify Babylon, and proposed making it the seat of empire, when the hand of death put a stop to all his vast projects. After a feast where he had drank to excess, he was seized with a fever, which terminated mortally. When at the point of dissolution, he was asked to whom he left his empire. • To the most worthy,' said he, and expired. He waa then thirty-two years of age, and had reign- ed twelve years : B. C. 323. He died equally regretted by the Macedonians and Persians. His empire extended from the Indus to Lybia, and from the Adriatic to the Caspian.
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