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1 This was Gedrosia; Curtius 9.10.18; Plut. Alexander 66.3; 67.4; Arrian. 6.27.1.
2 This was in Carmania. Curtius 9.10.22-28 gives a lurid account of this celebration; so also Plut. Alexander 67.1-3. Arrian. 6.28.1-2 states that this story was not told by Ptolemy or Aristobulus, and that he himself did not believe it. It may be connected, however, with the tradition of dramatic and athletic games held at this time in celebration of the safe return of both army and fleet (E. Badian, Classical Quarterly, 52 (1958), 152). But both Philip (Book 16.87.1) and Alexander (chap. 72.5) were fond of the comus in general.
3 For Alexander's disciplinary measures at this time cp. Curtius 9.10.20-21; 10.1.1-9, 30-42; Justin 12.10.8; Plut. Alexander 68.2-3; Arrian 27.1-5; 29-30 (Badian, op. cit. 147-150).
4 Nearchus gave an account of his joining Alexander on two occasions, once, very dramatically, in Carmania (Arrian. 6.28.5-6; Arrian Indica 33-36), and again after sailing up the Pasitigris to Susa (Arrian Indica 42). Curtius 10.1.10 and Plut. Alexander 68.2 seem to refer only to the former meeting. Neither meeting was on the coast. Salmus is not identified. Reference to the dramatic festival makes it likely that Diodorus is here referring to the reunion at Susa (Pliny Naturalis Historia 6.100, with reference to Nearchus and Onesicritus), but inserting it in the wrong place in his narrative. Pliny states that the voyage of Nearchus took six months, so the time would now be the spring of 324 B.C. B. Niese, Geschichte der griechischen und makedonischen Staaten, 1 (1893), 153, note 5, calculated the length of the voyage as about seventy-five days, which would bring the reunion rather to December of 325.
5 Others described the ocean tides at the mouth of the Indus (Curtius 9.9.9-25; Arrian. 6.19.1).
6 Curtius 10.1.11-12. The description is from Nearchus (Arrian Indica 30.4-5).
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- Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 6.26
- Plutarch, Alexander, 66.3
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- Plutarch, Alexander, 68.2
- Arrian, Anabasis, 6.19.1
- Arrian, Anabasis, 6.27.1
- Arrian, Anabasis, 6.28.1
- Arrian, Anabasis, 6.28.5
- Arrian, Indica, 30.4
- Arrian, Indica, 33.1
- Arrian, Indica, 42.1
- Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 10.1.10
- Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 10.1.11
- Curtius, Historiarum Alexandri Magni, 9.10.1
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