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Nothing toucht Alexander to the quick Like this, againft his deitj to kick : Upon a time, when both had drunken well, Upon this dangerous theam fond Clitiis fell ; From jcaft, to earneft, and at lafl: lb bold, That of Parmcnid's death him plainly toUl. Alexander now no longer could containe, But inftantlj commands him to be (laine; Next day, he tore his face, for what he'd done. And would have llaine himfelf, for Clitits gone. This pot companion he did more bemoan. Then all the wrong to brave Parmcnio done."*

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��Raleigh says : —

..." we read of Alexander . ., how he slew him [Clytus] soon after, for valuing the virtue of Philip the father before that of Alexander the son, or rather because he objected to the king the death of Parmenio, and derided the oracle of Hammon ; for thei-ein he touched him to the quick, the same being de- livered in public and at a drunken banquet, Clytus, indeed, had deserved as much at the king's hands as any man living had done, and had in particular saved his life, which the king well remembered when he came to himself, and when it was too late. Yet, to say the truth, Clytus's insolency was intolerable. As he in his cups forgat whom he offended, so the king in his (for neither of them were themselves) forgat whom he went about to slay ; for the grief whereof he tore his own face, and sor- rowed so inordinately, as, but for the persuasions of Callisthenes, it is thought he would have slain himself." |

In her sketch of Semiramis, we find this : —

"The River Indus % fwept them half away, The reft Statirobates in fight did Hay ;

t " History of the World," Bk. iv. ch, 3, sec. 19. X See page 186, note /,
 * First edition, pp 145-6. See pages 283-4.

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