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Arrian. 

 pared, but the enemy still resist- 

 ed stoutly. Eventually however, 

 their leaders being killed they, 

 after a vigorous defence, sent he- 

 ralds to Alexander. Alexander 

 granted them terms on condition 

 that the mercenaries should take 

 service under him. This they 

 accepted, but, encamping apart 

 upon a separate eminence, in the 

 night prepared to fly, being too 

 honorable to bear arms against 

 their own countrymen. Alexan- 

 der learning this, destroyed them 

 in the act of flight. He deprived 

 of all its defenders the city cap- 

 tured by force. The mother of 

 Assakanos and her son were 

 taken. Alexander lost in all this 

 siege only twenty-five men. 



" Thence he despatched Koinos 

 to Bazira, being of opinion that 

 the Baziroi on learning the 

 destruction of the Massagoi, 

 would surrender of their own 

 accord. But he sent Alketos 

 and Demetrios the Ipparch to 

 Ora another city, commanded to 

 enclose the city in a wall until 

 his arrival. And the citizens 

 sallied upon Alketus's force. The 

 Macedonians, however, without 

 difficulty drove them back into 

 the city. And the contest with 

 the Baziroi did not advance under 

 Koinos, for trusting to the great 



Our tins. 

 dragged along mighty heaps of 

 material for a mound. Others 

 cast into the cavities the roots of 

 large trees and rocks to swell the 

 heap. And now the pile was 

 level with the earth's surface. 

 Therefore they erected the tur- 

 rets, which works were completed 

 by the ardor of the troops in 

 nine days. The king, with his 

 wound still green, went to inspect 

 the works, and, having praised the 

 soldiery, ordered them to advance 

 the eDgines, from which a mighty 

 flight of darts is cast upon the 

 defenders. But especially the 

 moving towers terrified men un- 

 used to such a sight : that such 

 vast masses should be brought up 

 without visible aid, they believed 

 to be through the agency of the 

 gods. The battering-rams also 

 and the massive darts launched 

 from the engines, seemed unsuited 

 to mortals. Therefore hopeless 

 of saving the city, they retired to 

 the citadel. "Whence, since no- 

 thing but surrender would serve, 

 their ambassadors waited upon 

 the king to implore pardon. 

 "Which gained, the queen with a 

 large concourse of noble women, 

 went in procession, pouring out 

 wine from golden goblets. She, 

 placing her young son at the 

 knees of the king, not only pro- 



