“ They sacrifice to our gods, but they curse them, and boast and consider themselves gods. And they do not keep our laws, keeping their own laws. And they neglect the king. And their skin is white as snow and their features are red and beautiful. While we are dark and our features are like those of the demons. They boast of us saying: "Our king shall rule us, and we shall rule the land and the sea, and all the earth shall be our dominion." It is not for the glory of the kingdom to suffer them on the face of the earth. ”

“ And he came to Athens, and stood at the royal gate, and called to the guards, saying: "I am I, the son of Philip, and I have come before Xerxes. 3 The guards came to Xerxes and said: "The king of the Greeks stands at the gate. 4 And Xerxes answered and said: "Let him surely go in. Then Alexander was led into the presence of Xerxes. And Xerxes spoke to Alexander, saying: "Thou art one of the rebels, who have rebelled against the king, and seek not the peace of his kingdom." 5 And Alexander answered and said to him: "I would rather live a short life of glory than a long life of obscurity. ”

“ Come now, and let us go against them, and let us destroy their people, and rape their women, and raze their villages, and destroy their gods and their temples, and castrate them all, and take their women for ourselves. ”