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82 THE HISTORY OF ALEXANDER THE GREAT.<br />

slain. And when Darius the king saw that his<br />

foot-soldiers, and his horsemen, and his mighty<br />

men of valour were scattered, and were slain, and<br />

Flight of were destroyed, he turned and fled, and was<br />

vanquished. And <strong>Alexander</strong> said unto his soldiers,<br />

"Scatter them abroad", and a herald went round<br />

about among his soldiers, saying, "Pursue them not<br />

"when they flee, lest their defeat be an artfully<br />

"contrived plan; and turn ye not aside to make<br />

"spoil of their possessions;" and he gave them orders,<br />

saying, "Bring ye unto me every general whom<br />

"ye shall find." And when the soldiers heard his<br />

words they put the Persians to the sword,' and<br />

they ceased not [to slay] them until the night came:<br />

so God healed their hearts, and He healed the<br />

heart of <strong>Alexander</strong> and the hearts of his soldiers.<br />

Now Darius the king had escaped and fled until<br />

he came to a mighty river, ^ and he passed over<br />

^ This battle must have been that which Pseudo-CalHs-<br />

thenes (Bk. ii. chap. i6) describes as having taken place on<br />

the river Strangas, wherein as much damage seems to have<br />

been done to the Persian army by Darius' chariots armed<br />

with scythes as by the Greeks; ttoXXojv bk TTepffuJv oXeepiuj?<br />

TeXeuTiiadvTuuv, 6 be AapeTog qpopiiGeis UTreorpevjje idc;<br />

f]v'mq TuJv dpiuctTUuv toiv bpeTraviicpopoiv Kai ipoxtCovTiuv<br />

Touig eauToO oxXou? Kai Gepi^ovTOJV auxoc; ydp AapeTo?<br />

eBepiCe tou? ttoXXgui; oxXou? tluv TTepffuJv, wq en' dpoupas<br />

aidxua^ dYpuiras Keipoviei;. Meusel, p. 751.<br />

' The Strangas, which was frozen, and which Darius<br />

succeeded in crossing safely; under the weight of his follow-<br />

ers, however, the ice broke, and they were all drowned<br />

except such as were slain by the Macedonians.

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