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The History of Alexander
Quintus Curtius Rufus
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 50 CE
- Originally in
- Originally in Latin
- Pages
- Pages 350
In a baggage cart abandoned by the roadside, a Persian king lies dying, stabbed by his own courtiers, and the man who finds him is a Macedonian soldier looking for water. Curtius tells that scene, and a hundred like it, the way someone tells a story he has never got over, and the loss of two of his ten books is a real theft.
and cut them asunder with his sword, either eluding or fulfilling the designation of the oracle
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