Auf den Alexander zu kommen: dieser war so gütig gesinnt, daß man unter anderm Lobe, das ihm ertheilt wird, bemerkt, er habe in einer vierzehnjährigen Regierung keinen Menschen, ohne daß er verurtheilt worden, tödten lassen. Dennoch fiel er in Geringschätzung, weil er für weibisch galt, und es hieß, er ließe sich von seiner Mutter regieren. Es entstand eine Verschwörung der Soldaten gegen ihn, durch welche er um das Leben kam.
But let us come to Alexander, who was a man of such great goodness, that among the other praises which are accorded him is this, that in the fourteen years he held the empire no one was ever put to death by him unjudged; nevertheless, being considered effeminate and a man who allowed himself to be governed by his mother, he became despised, the army conspired against him, and murdered him.