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How many historians of his exploits
is Alexander the Great said to have had with him; and he, when standing on Cape Sigeum at the
grave of Achilles, said—“O happy youth, to find Homer as the panegyrist of
your glory!” And he said the truth; for, if the Iliad had not
existed, the same tomb which covered his body would have also buried his renown. What, did not
our own Magnus, whose valour has been equal to his fortune, present Theophanes the
Mitylenaean, a relater of his actions, with the freedom of the city in an assembly of the
soldiers?
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