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heroism, was struck through the temples with an arrow, and fell 

 breathless at that sovereign's feet ; at the same time another arrow, 

 three feet in length, aimed from the same quarter, pierced through 

 the breast-plate, and entered the body of Alexander. A vast effusion 

 of blood ensued, which greatly alarmed his two remaining friends ; 

 the king, however, retained his equanimity, and valiantly defended 

 himself against a host of foes who assailed him at a distance. At 

 length his strength began to fail him through the great loss of blood ; 

 a dizziness came over his eyes ; a chilly damp bedewed his limbs ; 

 and the conqueror of Asia fell prostrate upon his shield. Peucestas 

 immediately covered his body on one side with the sacred shield of 

 Pallas, and Leonnatus, with his own shield, guarded it on the other. 

 Both Avere dreadfully wounded, but both forgot their own sufferings 

 in those of their master. The Macedonians, without the castle, in the 

 mean time, were not idle. Impatient to succour their prince, they 

 supplied the want of scaling-ladders by large iron pins forcibly 

 driven into the wall, which was of brick; and, by means of these, 

 with mutual assistance and strenuous exertion, they, with great diffi- 

 culty, ascended to the top. On observing the king prostrate and 

 bleeding, they set up an outcry of horror, and, rushing down from 

 the heights, formed themselves around his body into an impreg- 

 nable rampart. Others, following them over the wall, attacked the 

 terrified enemy with redoubled fury; and, at length, by the exer- 

 tions of others, a gate between two towers being forced open, and a 

 part of the wall thrown down, admitted the body of the army, who 

 now inflicted a tremendous vengeance upon the inhabitants for the 

 (supposed) murder of their prince. Every soul found in the city and 

 citadel was put to death ; and the acclamations of loyal grief were 

 soon drowned amidst the more piercing cries of pregnant women 

 and infant children, devoted to promiscuous slaughter. Of this 

 nameless city Mr. Rennel, in his small map, has pointed out the 



