At the battle of the Granicus his helmet was cleft to his very scull;
at Gaza he was wounded in the shoulder with a dart. Among the
Maragandi he was shot in the shin so desperately, that the bone of
his shank was broken and started out of the skin. In Hyrcania he was
struck in the neck with a stone, which caused such a dimness in his
eyes that for many days he was in danger of losing his sight. Among the
Assaracans he was wounded in the heel with an Indian dart; at which
time he thus derided his flatterers with a smiling countenance, saying,
This is blood, and no immortal ichor,—