Identifier: plutarchslivesfo00westrich (find matches)
Title: Plutarch's lives for boys and girls : being selected lives freely retold
Year: 1900 (1900s)
Authors: Weston, W H Plutarch Rainey, W
Subjects: Biography -- To 500 Rome -- Biography Greece -- Biography
Publisher: New York : Stokes
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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he king had become very severe in punishingdisobedience or other offences. He put one of hisfriends to death for refusing to stay in a fortress ofwhich he had been placed in charge, and wdth his o^vnhand shot a rebellious Asiatic officer dead mth anarrow. About this time there happened an event that waslooked upon as a good omen of the success of Alexandersexpedition. A servant who had charge of the kingsequipage opened the ground near the river Oxus inorder to pitch the kings tent. There at once welledforth a spring of a liquid, which at first was oily anddirty, but afterwards ran perfectly clear, and neither insmell, nor in taste, nor in clearness differed from thereal oil of olives, though no olives grow in that country.It seems that Alexander was greatly pleased by thisincident. The soothsayers said that it betokened thatthe enterprise would be hard and difficult, but thatits result would be glorious, since the gods give oil torefresh men after their labours. In truth, during this
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.\- ALEXANDER AND CLITUS. ALEXANDER 137 expedition Alexander met with great dangers andreceived grave wounds, while his army suffered veryseverely from the lack of food and water and from theclimate. The prince indeed was ambitious to provethat courage can triumph over fortune, and that nothingis impossible to the bold and brave. In this spirit hisremark was framed on an occasion when he besieged acertain fort situated upon a rock so extremely steepthat the summit appeared inaccessible. He inquiredof one of his Asiatic officers what the character of thedefender was. Being told that he was of a timorousnature, the king remarked, Then we can take the fort,for there is no strength in its defence. In the event,he managed to terrify the defender and to make himselfmaster of the fort. When he was besieging another fort situated onan equally steep height, he saw among the companymarching to the assault a young Macedonian who borehis name, Alexander. You must bear yourself gal-lantly, my frie

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