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1 According to Arrian. 1.20.10, Neoptolemus, the son of Arrhabaeus and brother of that Amyntas who accompanied Alexander as a staff officer (Arrian. 1.12.7; 14.1; 28.4), had deserted to the Persians and was killed in the attack on Halicarnassus. Diodorus here places him on the Macedonian sideāand in view of the continued trust reposed by Alexander in his brother, this is a more reasonable account.
2 Two men only of Perdiccas's battalion; the event took place some days later (Arrian. 1.21.1). Was Perdiccas trying to repeat his success at Thebes (chap. 12.3)? It was the kind of exploit which Alexander would reward liberally. The drunkenness may have been a fiction, since Perdiccas acted without orders.
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