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Well, as I say, Alexander made predictions and gave oracles, employing great shrewdness in it and combining guesswork with his trickery. He gave responses that were sometimes obscure and ambiguous, sometimes downright unintelligible, for this seemed to him in the oracular manner. Some people he dissuaded or encouraged as seemed best to him at a guess. To others he prescribed medical treatments and diets, knowing, as I said in the beginning, many useful remedies. His cytmides were in highest favour with hima name which he had coined for a restorative ointment compounded of bears grease.[*] Expectations, however, and

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advancements and successions to estates he always put off to another day, adding: It shall all come about when I will, and when Alexander, my prophet, asks it of me and prays for you.”

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