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Alexander the False Prophet (34)

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At another time, when Rutilianus enquired whose soul he had inherited, the reply was:

Peleus son wert thou at the first; thereafter Menander,
Then what thou seemest now, and hereafter shalt turn to a sunbeam.
Four score seasons of life shall be given thee over a hundred.
But as a matter of fact he died insane at seventy without awaiting the fulfilment of the gods promise!

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