Alexander : a history of the origin and growth of the art of war from earliest times to the battle of Ipsus, : with a detailed account of the campaigns of the great Macedonian . ned to make a south-erly sweep so as to reduce to submission all the tribes northof the desert and west of the Arachotian rangfes. This routeimplied an extra march of nearly a thousand miles. Then,and not till then, could he with safety advance over the greatwater-shed of the Parapamisus (Hindu-Koosh). In accord-ance with this plan, so soon as Craterus arrived, he advancedsouth to Prophthasia, meeting small oppos
Alexander : a history of the origin and growth of the art of war from earliest times to the battle of Ipsus, : with a detailed account of the campaigns of the great Macedonian . ned to make a south-erly sweep so as to reduce to submission all the tribes northof the desert and west of the Arachotian rangfes. This routeimplied an extra march of nearly a thousand miles. Then,and not till then, could he with safety advance over the greatwater-shed of the Parapamisus (Hindu-Koosh). In accord-ance with this plan, so soon as Craterus arrived, he advancedsouth to Prophthasia, meeting small opposition, except fromthe tedium and difficidties of the route. It is on this march that Alexander is related to have en-countered an inimical tribe, which, on being pursued, retiredup the wooded slope of a mountain, the farther side of whichwas a sheer precipice. As he had little time to delay, and asthe wind was blowing towards the mountain slope, Alexandercontented himself with setting the woods on fire, and thusdrove the barbarians over the precipitous cliffs. This is anillustration of his fertility of resource, if it is at the sametime a demonstration of the cruelties of Coin in the Bodleian Library, enlarged. XXXII. PHILOTAS. FALL, B. C. 330. In Drangiana was discovered the so-called conspiracy of Philotas. Therehad been growing in the army a spirit of criticism -which materially threatenedits discipline. Philotas, among others, had been very outspoken. At this timea minor conspiracy, among obscure officials, to murder the king was knew of it and did not reveal it. He was tried by the Companions,and under torture confessed to what was treason, and implicated his father andothers. True or not, he was found guilty and executed by tlie , at Ecbatana, was also secretly executed. A number of others eitherfled, committed suicide, or were arrested and executed. Some were guilt of these so-called murders has been laid at Ale
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