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horse that formed the right wing of the enemy, they for a long 

 time resolutely combated the powerful body of Thessalian horse* 

 that formed Alexander's left ; but, seeing their own left wing totally 

 routed, Darius fled, and the mercenaries compelled to retreat, 

 they also betook themselves to flight. The chariot of Darius, con- 

 taining his bow, his shield, and the imperial chlamys worn by the 

 kings of Persia, but relinquished during his precipitate flight, in 

 the pursuit were seized, and brought to Alexander. The superb 

 tent of that monarch also, with his mother, his wife, his children, 

 and a numerous train of Persian ladies of the highest rank, were 

 among the spoil and captives of that day. The treasure, taken in the 

 camp, did not exceed three thousand talents of silver ; the rest, 

 with an immense quantity of plate, rich furniture, and other articles 

 of high value, had been sent for safety to Damascus ; but these, also, 

 shortly after, became the property of the victor. The numbers 

 reported to have fallen on either side are, again, incredibly dis- 

 proportionate ; Arrian, the most authentic guide, stating the loss of 

 the Persians at ninety thousand foot and ten thousand horse, and of 

 the Macedonians of high rank, among whom was Ptolemy, the son 

 of Seleucus, he says there were one hundred and twenty *. Of the 

 total amount of the slain in Alexander's army he gives no account ; 

 from which circumstance it may easily be gathered, that it must 

 have been much greater than is stated by the highest computation in 

 Diodorus, which is three hundred men-f. Thus terminated the 

 fatal battle of Issus ; and, in commemoration of the decisive victory 

 obtained at that place> Alexander afterwards erected that celebrated 

 city near the scite of it, on the Sinus Issicus, or gulph of the same 

 name, which is even at this day called after his name, in Persian, 



* Arrian, lib. ii, cap. 10, 11. t Diod. Sic. lib. xvii. cap. 512-518. 



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