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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 494 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ARISTANDER , of Telmessus in See also:

Lycia, was the favourite soothsayer of See also:Alexander the See also:Great, who consulted him on all occasions. After the See also:death of the monarch, when his See also:body had lain unburied for See also:thirty days, Aristander procured its See also:burial by foretelling that the See also:country in which it was interred would be the most prosperous in the See also:world. He is frequently mentioned by the historians who wrote about Alexander, and was probably the author of a See also:work on prodigies, which is referred to by See also:Pliny (Nat. Hist. xvii. 38) and See also:Lucian. See also:Philopatris, 21; See also:Arrian, See also:Anabasis, ii. 26, iii. 2, iv. 4; See also:Plutarch, Alexander; See also:Curtius iv. 2, 6, 15, vii. 7.

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