8 Death of Anectanabus, and the finding of Bucephalus.

Wretch" he said, "That presumes to tell things that are
to come, right as though you were a prophet, and knew the private
of heaven. Now may you see that you lie and therefore
you are worthy to have such a death," And then Anectanabus
answered and said "I know well enough," he said, "that I should
die such a death. Told I not long before to you that my
own son should slay me?" "Why am I your son?" Then
said Alexander: "Ahh, for truth," said Anecanabus, " I begat you," 8
And with that word he yeilded the spirit. And then Alexander
heart tendered for his father, and he took him up on his back
and bore him to the palace. And when his mother, Olympia
saw him, she said unto him. "Son," she said, "What 12
is that?" "All your folly has made it," he said, "So it is."
And then he had him buried woshipfully.
In the meantime a prince of Macedonia brought the king
an untamed horse; great and fair; and he was tied on same 16
side with chains of iron, for he was very mean and ate them.
This same horse was called Buktiphalas, because of his ugly
likeness, for he had a head like a bull and knots in his
front as they had been the beginning of horns. And when 20
the king saw the beauty of this horse he said to his servants,
"Take this horse away and put him in a stable and make bars
of iron before him that theives and other misdoers, that shall be
done to death, may to put unto him, to be slain by him 24
And they did so. In the meantime the king Philip had
an answer from his gods, that he should reign next after
him, the same might ride that wild horse without
harm. So it fell that Alexander the same was then twelve years 28
old, grown strong and right hardy, and was wise and discrete;
for he was well and befittingly learned in all the seven sciences,
the same two pholosophers he taught him: that is to say,
Aristotle and Calistene. And one a day as Alexander passed 32
before the place there the aforesaid stood, he looked in be-
tween the bars of iron and saw, before the horse, mens hand
and feet, and other of their members, laying scatteres here and
there and he had great wonder thereof. And he put his 36