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Sangala thus reduced, Alexander was in hopes that the terror of 

 their punishment would induce the inhabitants of all the adjacent 

 cities to submit, and dispatched Eumenes, with three hundred horse, 

 to inform them of its fate, and to demand the surrender of them- 

 selves and their cities. But Eumenes found those cities a desert ; 

 the inhabitants of that whole district, who had already learned the 

 fate of Sangala, under the impulse of terror and dismay, having 

 precipitately fled, and concealed themselves in the iorests and 

 mountains. Alexander, fearful of a new hydra erecting its head in 

 that region, immediately ordered numerous squadrons of cavalry to 

 scour the country in every direction, and himself also joined warmly 

 in the pursuit: many were overtaken and slain, but they were 

 principally those whose age or infirmities had retarded their flight; 

 the rest escaped : and the king, returning to Sangala, rased it to the 

 foundations, lest it should a second time prove a harbour ibr his 

 enemies. The other cities, reduced in this excursion, as well as the 

 entire region subjugated between the Hydraotes and Hyphasis, he 

 gave to Porus and those tribes of Indians who had voluntarily joined 

 his standard, and then marched back to the point on the Hyphasis, 

 at which he intended to cross that fourth river of the Panjab. 

 Arrian does not notice, but Curtius particularly mentions, as resident 

 in this quarter of India, a nation, remarkable for the superior 

 beauty of their persons, to which great attention was, by the order 

 of the state, paid in their infancy : but not only for their corporeal 

 qualifications are they praised by this writer, he bestows equal 

 commendation on the sublime wisdom of their legislative code 

 and the unsullied purity of their morals. They were governed by a 

 king, named Sophites, who, on Alexander's approach to his capital, 

 had ordered the gates to be closed, and not a soul to appear on the 

 walls, either to repel or to invite the enemy. The Macedonians, in 

 consequence, concluded that this also was a city that had been 



