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At last he showed us a new exercise: boxing. He refused, however, to try his skill on any one but a slave, so Cambyses sent for the biggest and strongest man among the servants my groom, Bessus a giant who can bring the hind legs of a horse together and hold them so firmly that the creature trembles all over and cannot stir.
At last he showed us a new exercise: boxing. He refused, however, to try his skill on any one but a slave, so Cambyses sent for the biggest and strongest man among the servants my groom, Bessus a giant who can bring the hind legs of a horse together and hold them so firmly that the creature trembles all over and cannot stir.
Give Roxana to Zopyrus, who is so fond of women, or to Darius or Bessus, who are related to her father Hydarnes. I cannot love her, and should be miserable . . ." Cambyses interrupted him with a laugh, exclaiming: "Did you learn these notions in Egypt, where it is the custom to be contented with one wife? In truth, I have long repented having sent a boy like you abroad.
In 329 he directed his course northward, entered Ecbatana, and extended his conquests to the coasts of the Caspian, punished Bessus, the cowardly assassin of Darius, penetrated into Scythia, and subdued the Scythians. "In 328 he forced the passage of the Oxus, received sixteen thousand recruits from Macedonia, and reduced the neighboring people to subjection.
Galleys were equipped to convey it, and a body of troops was designated to escort it, and suitable officers appointed to proceed with Bessus to Carthage, and superintend the transportation of the metal. These preparations necessarily required some time, and during the interval Bessus was of course the object at Rome of universal attention and regard.
He sent back word to Alexander that Bessus was at his disposal, and asked for orders. The answer was, "Put a rope around his neck and send him to me." When the wretched prisoner was brought into Alexander's presence, Alexander demanded of him how he could have been so base as to have seized, bound, and at last murdered his kinsman and benefactor.
When Alexander came up to them, he showed manifest tokens of sorrow, and taking off his own cloak, threw it upon the body to cover it. And sometime afterwards, when Bessus was taken, he ordered him to be torn in pieces in this manner.
Bessus and his confederates. Advance of Alexander. Retreat of Darius. The Caspian Gates. Pursuit of Darius. Foraging parties. The pursuit continued. Alexander stops to rest his army. Want of water. Disregarded by Alexander. The pursuit grows more exciting. Guides employed. The Persians overtaken. Murder of Darius. Sufferings of Darius. Treachery of friends. Darius found. Sufferings from thirst.
They fastened the exhausted and dying Bessus to these trees, one limb of his body to each, and then releasing the stems from their confinement, they flew upward, tearing the body asunder, each holding its own dissevered portion, as if in triumph, far over the heads of the multitude assembled to witness the spectacle. Alexander at the summit of his ambition. Sad changes.
The killer of a son sending the dead body, in a splendid coffin, to the mother, as a token of respectful regard! Alexander pressed on to the northward and eastward in pursuit of Bessus, who had soon collected the scattered remains of his army, and was doing his utmost to get into a posture of defense.
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