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Literal Translation. 81
her form. So when he beheld her, he loved her much, for of
the world's women there was not a woman who resembled her
as to shape and make, save only Priam's daughter Polyxcna.
He found not her equal in dignity and in conspicuousness and
in loveliness; wherefore Alexander son of the king of Troy
loved her, so that every joint and every limb in him was full
of passion for her. Then Alexander came in front of the lady,
to shew forth his form and habit, his garment and vesture,
because it was an embroidered (?) vesture that he wore, 1 with
its adornment of ridged red gold, with its array of precious stones
around him on the outside, and against his skin a noticeable
tunic of the silken cloth, with its separate fringes of refined
gold. Stately and proud was the kind of pace with which he
came 2 to behold the women. When either saw the other of them,
they remained a long time, each of them a-gazing at the other.
Such was the greatness wherewith they each loved the other
that they had no desire to separate till death. Then Alexan-
der enjoined on his people to be prepared and to be ready to
loose their vessels when night should have come. So when the
night fell, Alexander with his people went to attack the idol-
house and they lay hand over it. They took Helen with her
ladies with them to their vessels. Helen, truly, was fain of
that. Now when he had finished the raid on the idolhouse,
and the outraging of Venus and Apollo, and the bearing away
of Helen in elopement, the folk of the city heard of that.
They come from every point. They deliver a strong assault on 3
Alexander, in order that their queen might not be taken from
them, in such wise that men were slain 4 contending with_tliejn.
Thereafter that was told to the crew of Trojans who were
biding in the vessels. These came out of their vessels stark
naked, and they took their arms on them, and they made an
onfall on that stead and seized all that was therein of booty
and of wealth. Then they embarked in their vessels and ran
1 Lit. was about him. a Lit. which he brought with him.
3 Lit. conflict to.
4 Lit. there were dead men.
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