Ille dona ut ab amicis accipi iussit benigneque legatos allocutus Herculi, quem praecipue Tyrii colerent, sacrificare velle se dixit; Macedonum reges credere ab illo deo ipsos genus ducere, se vero ut id faceret etiam oraculo monitum.
Alexander gave orders that the gifts should be received as a token of friendship, and addressing the envoys courteously, said that he wished to offer sacrifice to Hercules, whom the Tyrians specially honoured; that the kings of Macedon believed that they derived their descent from that god, and that moreover he had been advised by an oracle to do that thing.
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