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Gracilis act Aornon. 



[No. 4. 



Arrlan. Curtim. 



mountainous and rugged road,* spreading enveloped the tombs 

 and having with difficulty passed of the citizens. They were of 



it, he commanded the throng of 

 foot to follow step by step. But 

 he, taking all the horse, and of the 

 Macedonian foot 800, caused the 

 heavy armed foot to mount on 

 horseback, and pushed on rapidly, 



ancient cedar ,and, taking fire, 

 spread widely until the whole was 

 levelled with the soil. And from 

 the city first the bark of dogs 

 then the murmur of men was 

 heard. And then the citizens 



because he had heard that the perceived an enemy and the Ma- 

 neighbouring barbarians had fled cedonians that they were before 

 to the mountain of that country the city. And now the king led 



and to defend such cities as were 

 tenable. And attacking them at the 

 first inhabited city on the road, 

 those arrayed in front of the walls 

 fled on the first assault and shut 

 themselves within the city." 



This city had a double wall, 

 Alexander and Ptolemy were 

 wounded before it. It was taken 



up his forces and besieged the 

 city, when those of the enemy 

 who tried conclusions were over- 

 whelmed with darts. Therefore 

 some tried surrender, others fight : 

 their difference being known, he 

 commanded to surround those 

 who hesitated and to abstain from 

 slaughtering them, and at length 



the day following, the inhabitants wearied with the evils of a siege 



flying to the mountain which was they surrendered. They gave 



near the city. out that they were founded by 



"Having levelled this city Father Bacchus and this was 



he came to Andaka, another city, their real origin. The city is 



which having entered on its founded beneath the roots of the 



surrender, he occupied : he left mountain which the inhabitants 



Krateros with the other foot call Meros : whence the Greeks 



commanders, to take forcibly any have drawn the license of fabling 



cities not voluntarily surrender- that Father Bacchus was hidden 



ing and to arrange all matters in in the thigh of Jupiter. The 



* There seems to be here some misprint. The text has 7ropeu0eis 5e irapa rov 

 X^W Ka\ovfjL€vov -Koraixov, opziv-qv re odov Kai rpaxeiav, Kai rovrov Siafias x a ^ e7ri0 ^' 

 Had it been rrjy there had been no doubt that it was the road which he passed with 

 difficulty but the masculine gender has led Rooke in his translation (which I have 

 procured to compare with my own) to translate it, " when he had with some diffi- 

 culty crossed that river." It seems to me more probable that Arrian wrote ravrrju. 



