216 On the Sites of Nikaia and Boukephalon, [No. 3. 



Ora, Bazira and Abisara are all nearly contiguous one with another, and 

 all near the Indus. 



After the capture of Aornos, Alexander entered deeper amongst the 

 mountains to settle the brother of Assakanos,* who had carried thither 

 some troops and many elephants. He then came to the Indus,f and, 

 ordering timber to be felled for boats, went throughout the country 

 included between the Kophenos and Indus. £ This Kophenos is 

 without doubt the Loondi, for Alexander had not crossed it, but had 

 marched for it from Nikaia, (a town probably near the present Julal- 

 abad). This country therefore, is the Eusufzye. Curtius states, that 

 he made seventeen marches§ from Aornos to the Indus, where he cross- 

 ed. Such a tour, including the attack upon the brother of Assakanos, 

 would bring him to the ordinary crossings at Atuk. Arrian spends 

 some time in questioning whether the Indus was bridged ; as the season 

 was summer and the Indus was swollen with melted snow, it assuredly 

 was not bridged. 



Now when Alexander crossing the Indus had come to Taxila, the 

 brother and the ambassadors of Abisares waited upon him with 

 tribute. || It is therefore manifest, that Taxila is near the Huzara 

 mountains, and somewhere about the parallel of the Eusufzye country. 



sed in metse maxime modum erecta est ; cujus ima spatiosiora sunt, altiora in 

 arctius coeunt, summa in acutum cacumen exsurgunt. Radices ejus Indus amnis 

 subit, prsealtus utrinque asperis ripis. Q. Cur. lib. viii. par. 11. 



* "Aipas 8' e/c rrjs irerpas, is rfyv t&v ' AacraKavwv x < * 3 P av ip&dWei. Tbv yap 

 a8e\<pbv 'AffactKavov ifyyyeWero rovs re eXecpavras %x 0VTa Ka ^ T " >v "npoax&pw 

 fiapfidpoov ttoWovs £v[Mire<pevyevai is ra ravrrjs opt}. Arrian, lib. iv. cap. 30. 



"t" Avrbs 5' d>s eiri rbv 'lvS6u irorafibv ^5rj ^ye, Kal tj crrparia avrai cp8oiroie?ro irpocru) 

 lovcra, &Tropa &\Aus ovra to ravrrj ^copies. 



'Eirel 8e Kal vAr) ipyaai/uKp ivervx* irapa rbv irorap.bv, Kal avrrj iKoirrj auT<£ virb 

 rr)S exponas, Kal vavs iiroirjaav, &c. ib. lib. iv. cap. 30. 



X 5 Ev Se rrj x^P a ravrr), H\v riva jxera^v rod re Kuxprjvos Kal rov 'ludov irorafiov 

 itrriXQev 'AAe'|ewSpos, ib. lib. v. cap. 1. 



§ Inde processit Embolima, &c. Hinc ad flumen Indum sestis decimis castris 

 pervenit. Q. Cur. lib. viii. par. 12. Alexander's first visit to the Indus is not 

 noticed by Curtius, apparently because be had just stated that Aornos was upon that 

 river. Arrian says that he left tbe rock to go after Assacanus's brother, but find- 

 ing he had fled to Abisares, leaving the elephants on the Indus, he came to the river. 



j| t Hkov 5' ivravQa reap avrbv Kal irapa 'Afiurdpov Trpea&etSj tov rS>v opeicou 'ivdwv 

 fiaffiAfm, o, re a8eA<pbs ai/rov 'Afticrdpov, Kal &\Koi £i>v avr<p ol SoKifiwraroi. Kal 

 irapa Ao|apew$ vofidpxov &\\oi, hoopa <pepoures. Arrian, lib. v. cap. viii. 



