Excerpt from The Prince a Romance of the Camp and Court of Alexander the Great, the Love Story of Roxana, the Maid of Bactria Of Philip's invincible troops there was no hint save as some heavily armed soldier paced his rounds before the closed gates or on the city's protecting walls. For the King and his army were away, intent upon a final trial of strength on the plains of Cheronea, between Macedonia and the combined armies of Athens and Thebes. But of the result of the struggle no word had yet reached the wait ing city and its impatient Queen, or the wives and sweethearts of those who had gone forth to battle for their country; and thus it had been for days and weeks wherein those left behind scarce spoke above a whisper, so great was their distress. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.