Alexander : a history of the origin and growth of the art of war from the earliest times to the battle of Ipsus, , with a detailed account of the campaigns of the great Macedonian . hese Macedonians might criticise and bluster and browbeat,there was yet never a moment during Alexanders whole reignwhen, from the least to the greatest, each and every man inhis army would not without thought or hesitation have laidhis life at the feet of his beloved chief. This wonderfulsuperiority, indeed, is the reason why Alexanders lieutenantshave themselves less personal prominence ; their own individ-
Alexander : a history of the origin and growth of the art of war from the earliest times to the battle of Ipsus, , with a detailed account of the campaigns of the great Macedonian . hese Macedonians might criticise and bluster and browbeat,there was yet never a moment during Alexanders whole reignwhen, from the least to the greatest, each and every man inhis army would not without thought or hesitation have laidhis life at the feet of his beloved chief. This wonderfulsuperiority, indeed, is the reason why Alexanders lieutenantshave themselves less personal prominence ; their own individ- 508 ALEXANDERS OFFICERS. ual rays were swallowed up in the greater refulgence o£ thecentral light. Thus the noble Craterus, who, as it is said,loved the king; the gentle Hephsestion who loved Alexander;thus the ever reliable and duty-doing Ptolemy, son of Lagus ;the quiet, through and through faithful Ccenus; the calculat-ing Lysimachus. The Macedonian hoplite, the artist, poet,philosopher who followed the camp-court, the Persian noble,each stands out in history in bolder personal relief than themost efficient of Alexanders generals. It is wont to be thuswith all great Alexander.(From a Statue in the Glyptothek in Munich.) XXXVIII. THE COPHEN COUNTRY. MAY, B. C. 327, TO WINTER. During the spring of b. c. 327, Alexander set out for India, a sort of fairy-land to all Greeks. From some Indian princes who had come to him with em-bassies of peace he had discovered that the Cophen cuts its passage through themountain ranges to the Indus, in a narrow defile which formed, as it were, theGates of India. With some hundred thousand men he left Zariaspa, andcrossed the Caucasus to Alexandria. Thence, in two columns he advanceddown the Cophen. The lesser column marched down the south bank, subduingthe narrow strip of land between the river and the mountains, with orders tomeet the king at the Indus. With his own column he moved along the northbank, and by sending detachments up
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