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When Alexander was conducted by the priests into the temple and had regarded the god for a while, the one who held the position of prophet, an elderly man, came to him and said, "Rejoice, son1 take this form of address as from the god also."

1 Curtius 4.7.25; Justin 11.11.2-12; Plut. Alexander 27.5.

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