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23 the contrary. Believing a legend that he was lathered by an Egyp- tian god. Alexander at first fought his way to Egypt to hear the god's oracle confirm his semidivine origins. But the oracle also predicted his early death, and Alexander's travels and conquests were thereafter motivated by a search for the Waters of Life, so that he might drink of them and evade his fate. He died, in spite of all the carnage, young and in his prime. And ever since, the Wars of Men have been the wars of men alone. The Wars of Man