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Anectanabus telleth the Queen’s fate.

And Olympias said to him, “O Master, tell me the day on which my lord that I love was born, and then I shall know thy skill.” “Small skill were that,” said Anectanabus, “to tell the past; is there naught of the future you would learn?” “Yea,” said the Queen, “tell me what shall part Philip and me, for it is told me by my wise women that if he returns from battle he shall take another wife, and send me away for ever.” “Nay, not for ever,” said the Egyptian, “not for ever, nor for long shall he put thee away, for will he nill he, he must have thee for his queen.” Then Olympias wondered greatly, and she asked Anectanabus how this should be, and the wise man answered and told her, how that the great god of her country, Ammon, should give her a fair son who should help her all his life, and how that the god would protect her till her son was grown. Then was the queen right glad, and she promised Anectanabus that when these things should happen she would honour him all her life. Then the wise man rose from his seat, and after looking on the queen for a while, went from the hall to make his enchantments as at other times.