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Indian foe, though by no means, as is generally understood, the 

 supreme sovereign of India, I find myself compelled to hasten 

 to the conclusion of a work, which has already exceeded every 

 prudent limit. The result was, that Alexander, equally won by his 

 talents and his valour, ever afterwards numbered Porus among his in- 

 timate friends, and not only honourably replaced him on the throne 

 of his ancestors, but added many extensive provinces to his former 

 empire. Alexander, after this, performed magnificent obsequies to 

 the manes of those brave men who had perished in the engagement ; 

 offered the most costly sacrifices to the gods ; and solemnized the 

 athletic and equestrian games usual among the Greeks, on the 

 banks of the Hydaspes. In memory, also, of this important victory, 

 the king erected two cities, one on the spot where the battle was 

 fought, which he thence called NICVEA; the other on the scite of 

 his camp on the western bank of the Hydaspes, where his favourite 

 horse Bucephalus, which he had broke in, when a youth, at the 

 hazard of his life, which had attended him in all his campaigns, 

 and shared every danger with his affectionate master, died, according 

 to Arrian, at the advanced age of nearly thirty years*. But this must 

 certainly be a mistake ; for, at that rate of computation, Bucephalus 

 would have been a year older than Alexander himself, who is said 

 to have broken him in, when nobody else could accomplish the 

 arduous task, at the age of sixteen years ; and it is not credible 

 that a horse, for which Philip, as Plutarch informs us, paid thirteen 

 talents, (or 2500 1. sterling,) could be worth that sum when the 

 prime of his youth Avas so long past-)-. The age of Bucephalus, 

 however, even according to this mode of calculation, must have been 

 considerable, and his memory was intended to be perpetuated in the 

 name of Bucephala, conferred on the city built on the spot where 



* Arrian, lib. v. cap. 18. t Plutarch in Vita Alexand. 



