Invasion of
The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great as described by Arrian, Q. Curtius, Diodoros, Plutarch and Justin: Being Translations of such portions of the Works of these and other Classical Authors as describe Alexander's Campaigns in Afghanistan, the Panjâb, Sindh, Gedrosia and Karmania
作者：McCrindle, John Watson, 1825-1913
体例：段 章数：40
字数：809,288 来源：Project Gutenberg
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共 40 段- From Zariaspa Alexander returned to Marakanda, passing on hi
- On leaving the Arabios the fleet, coasting the shores of the
- It was early in the year 326 B.C. that Alexander, fresh from
- The empire which this comparatively insignificant force was
- Alexander was now, therefore, the undisputed master of all t
- As the year (329 B.C.) was now drawing to a close, he recros
- When spring was now past,[26] he led his army from Baktra to
- Next day at dawn he ordered the soldiers to cut a hundred st
- In what manner Alexander made his bridge over the Indus neit
- The Indians meanwhile had collected their horsemen from ever
- It was reported that the country beyond the Hyphasis was exc
- Alexander sailing thus,[151] halted on the third day at the
- On coming to know this, Alexander, anxious to prevent any co
- He then took again the half of the hypaspists and Agrianians
- The character of the people is here, as elsewhere, formed by
- Omphis, under Alexander’s permission, and according to the u
- In the neighbouring mountains was abundance of timber fit fo
- When Coenus had made an end of speaking there arose from all
- “I cannot but tremble to relate that the hands of the greate
- On the third day they observed that the sea, coming up with
- He then came to the river Indus, and, finding that the thirt
- He undertook next an expedition against the Syrakousai[360]
- When the king had heard their story to the end, he ordered t
- ... After this he advanced towards India that he might make
- The identification of this celebrated rock has been one of t
- Grote, referring to this battle, remarks that “the day on wh
- This city of the Brachmans Cunningham takes to have been Brâ
- This people occupied the country about the mouths of the Gan
- APOLLONIOS, a native of Tyana in Kappadokia, was born in the
- KALÂNOS was a gymnosophist of Taxila, who left India with Al
- NEARCHOS.—Among all the great men associated with Alexander
- Sandrokottos while in Magadha had seen that the king was hel
- [16] Curzon thinks that Pasargadai lay to the north-east of
- [80] The Persians were originally the inhabitants of that po
- [141] “This city,” says Lassen, “lay probably where Wazirâbâ
- [180] In the 15th chapter of this book Arrian states that Al
- [223] Strabo adds the significant statement that the king at
- [307] Athenaios (vi. 13) relates, on the authority of Aristo
- Amphipolis, 396, 404
- Rôxana, wife of Alexander, 42, 50, 156, 382, 398, 400, 404,