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[5] and people thought that the order was an ill omen, and that heaven was foretelling the king's own death. There were also at this time other strange signs pointing to the same event, as we shall relate shortly, after we have finished the account of the funeral.1

1 A similar account of Hephaestion's funeral was probably given by Curtius and is now lost from the manuscript of book 10. The references in Justin 12.12.12, Plut. Alexander 72, and Arrian 7.14 are briefer, and locate it before, not after, the Cossaean campaign.

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