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Now, the great battle against Dareius was not fought at Arbela, as most writers state, but at Gaugamela.
1 The word signifies, we are told, ‘camel's house,’ since one of the ancient kings of the country, after escaping from his enemies on a swift camel, gave the animal a home here, assigning certain villages and revenues for its maintenance.
1 Cf. Arrian, Anab. iii. 8, 7.
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1919. 7.
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