The Anglo Saxon Version From The Historian Orosius

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Excerpt from The Anglo-Saxon Version, From the Historian Orosius: By AElfred the Great; Together With an English Translation From the Anglo-Saxon His juvenile ftudies, however, were not merely, clerical; for Afi'er (who was [elfred's con temporary) informs us, that when this king' was but twelve years old, his mother offered a book of Saxon poetry to any of her fons who would get it by, heart, and that zelfred obtained the prize from his brothers [vl' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1773 edition. Excerpt: ... su-mmer, and the number of battleswvrhieh. heffwasiobliged to fight; _ ', -.1'i-Thatisgunderfliexander, as I uitdeist andthis passage at least. ' 5;isiul..' '-After After this, Alexander-made larger encamps ments than he used to do, vand particularly one afferrrhese-battles which was much moroconfira derable thanany of his._former ones kja-Then he failed into the Ocean, o the mouth of the-Winci-Eginense, where he landed onzan, illand which was inhabited by the Sibi and Gessome, whom Hercules had formerly planted there as acolony, and they surrenderedl themselves prisouers to him. Thence he proceeded. to two ifiands, which are called Mandraz and Subagri, whoseinhabitants brought down against him 8oo, ooo foot and 6o, ooo horse.. It was a longtime, however, before either fide could, t boast-cofvbeinsig the conquerors, till at last Alexander obtained a victory, which did not do him much honour. v From this place Alexander went to a fortress, which when he approached, he could not see any one to defend i-t, and being much surprized at." its being so abandoned, be c/am ered himself over thewall, on-which the inhabitants draging him in, attacked him with arrows, flings, and all sorts of machines, yet could not they all together oblige Alexander to surrender himself their prisouer. N-owr, when they t/Jronged o. "i, A) i 3 l-Orosiusfsays, these campe were' made-to perpetuate Alexandelds victories, and therefore it is supposed zthatthc mounds were high, and encompassedzmuch ground: It i' possible that many of what we callilencamlpmentsct, were thus made to commemorate the spot ofavictory, and not as camp' of defence. _ v.'-;., .., 1... '.._., v-l _2 enemies ' terwards he took' 'the town, and then returned homewards to Babylon, ...