31/70 In the society of Asia, nothing is visible but the monarch; in the expanse of heaven, all objects vanish in presence of the sun. Prematurely cut off in the midst of many great projects Alexander died at Babylon before he had completed his thirty-third year (B.C. 323). There was a suspicion that he had been poisoned. His temper had become so unbridled, his passion so ferocious, that his generals and even his intimate friends lived in continual dread. |