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 INDULGENCE TOWARDS KLEOMENES. 253 Respecting the honors intended for Hephcestion at Alexandria, he addressed to Kleomenes, the satrap of Egypt, a despatch which becomes in part known to us. I have already stated that Kleomenes was among the worst of the satraps ; having com- mitted multiplied public crimes, of which Alexander was not un- informed. The regal despatch enjoined him to erect in com- memoration of Hephaestion a chapel on the terra firma of Alex- andria, with a splendid turret on the islet of Pharos ; and to provide besides that all mercantile written contracts, as a con- dition of vaUdity, should be inscribed with the name of Hephass- tion. Alexander concluded thus : " If on coming I find the Egyptian temples and the chapels of Hephaestion completed in the best manner, I will forgive you for all your past crimes ; and in future, whatever magnitude of crime you may commit, you shall suffer no bad treatment fi-om me."' This despatch strikingly illustrates how much the wrong doings of satraps were secondary considerations in his view, compared with splendid manifesta- tions towards the gods and personal attachments towards friends. The intense sorrow felt by Alexander for the death of He- phaestion — not merely an attached friend, but of the same age ander (after his decease) of prospective schemes. But the funeral pile had already been erected at Babylon, as Diodorus himself had informed us. What Alexander left unexecuted at his decease, but intended to execute if he had lived, was the splendid edifices and chapels in Hephajstion's honor — as we see by Arrian, vii, 23, 10. And Diodorus must be supposed to al- lude to these intended sacred buildings, though he has inadvertently spoken of the funeral pile. Kraterus, who was under orders to return to Macedo- nia, was to have built one at Pella. The Olynthian Ephippus had composed a book nepl rrjc 'H(l>ai(jr^uvo; Kol ^ATie^avSpov Ta(p/jc, of which there appear four or five citations in Attie- iiseus. lie dwelt especially on the luxurious habits of Alexander, and on his unmeasured potations — common to him with other Macedonians. ' Arrian, vii. 23, 9-14. Kac KXeofievei, uvdpl kokC), kuI ■koXXu u6iK7j/iaTa uSiKyaavTi h kiyv-Tu. hTnariXkei eTnaToXr/v "Hv yiip KaraT^ujiu eyd {eXeye tu ypunfiara) rii lepu tu. tv AlyvTTT<j Ka'/.u^ KareaKsvaa/xeva Kac ra ripiJc. Til 'li<paiar'iuvor, etre rt Trporepov ^/xupTrjicac, u(prjau ae tovtuv, koI T67Mimv, 6-Tj?iiKov, uv u/iuprjy^, oiidiv neiaij ii Ifiov u-X'^P'^- — Ir. the oration of Demosthenes against Dionysodoras (pt 1285), Kleomenes appears as enriching himself by the monopoly of corn exported from Egypt: compare Fseudo-Aristot. CEconom. c. 33. Kleomenes was afterwards put to death by the first Ptolemy, who became king of Egypt (Pausanias, i. 6, 3). VOL, Xllfc 22