Alexander Mourns His Friend Hephaestion - A Short Greek Translation

Alexander the Great mourns his friend, Hephaestion: 

"When Alexander was marching into Ekbatana and was doing worthy works, he was back again in the theatre, because three thousand actors out of Greece are going. For many days, Hephaestion, friend of Alexander, burns with a fever. The doctor was commanding a difficult diet, which Hephaestion was not able to bear; For he was young and with the arrogance of a soldier. When the doctor was coming into the theatre, on the one hand Hephaestion eats up the whole boiled chicken, on the other hand he drinks much wine, so that he dropped dead. Alexander feels grief through the death of him, and was commanding both the horses and all things to be cut as a sign of the grief, but he was stopping all the music in the camp for much time, until the time that the oracle from Ammon was commanding the Greeks to honor Hephaestion as a God. Alexander was wanting a very expensive tomb to make to his friend, which has surpassing ingenuity and extravagance. Therefore Alexander especially seeks Stasicrates, the brilliant architect; For the buildings of him were great achievements."