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1 This incident is not mentioned by Justin or Arrian, or by Plutarch in the Alexander, but is given in Plut. Demosthenes 23.5.
2 Arrian. 1.11.1, after mentioning the sacrifice to Olympian Zeus, adds: "others say that he held games in honour of the Muses." That is to say, this was not mentioned by Ptolemy or (probably) Aristobulus, Arrian's primary sources.
3 The size of this structure may be judged from the fact that Agathocles's Hall of the Sixty Couches was one of the wonders of Sicily (Book 16.83.2). The tent accompanied Alexander on his expedition (Athenaeus 12.538c, 539d).
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