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 . adjacent countries, with which Alexander could later moveagainst Carthage and other nations on the Mediterranean;and to begin a system of deportation of people from Europeinto Asia and vice versa in pursuance of Alexanders generalscheme. But the plan was too vast for any one but Alexan-der ; and his successors made no attempt to carry it out. Antipater was ordered to bring to Asia in person an equalnumber of
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 . adjacent countries, with which Alexander could later moveagainst Carthage and other nations on the Mediterranean;and to begin a system of deportation of people from Europeinto Asia and vice versa in pursuance of Alexanders generalscheme. But the plan was too vast for any one but Alexan-der ; and his successors made no attempt to carry it out. Antipater was ordered to bring to Asia in person an equalnumber of young men of military age to replace the veterans 642 ANTIPATER AND OLYMPIAS, who returned home. He was so instructed to come becausethe queen-mother, Olympias, and he were always at odds, thequarrels had of late waxed hotter, and Alexander had fearslest some harm should come of it. The king had always heldhis mother in great love and reverence, despite his recognitionof her short-comings. In regard to Antipaters letters com-plaining of Olympias mixing in public affairs, Alexanderonce observed: Antipater does not know that one motherstear wipes out a thousand letters such as Alexander, from a Statue in Dresden. XLVII BABYLON. AUGUST, B. C. 324, TO JUNE, B. C. 323. Alexander planned to visit and regulate each part of his enormous em-pire in turn. He had been down the Euphrates to the Gulf, and up theTigris to Opis. He now marched to Ecbatana. Here Hephaestion died, andAlexander, whose grief was extreme for this friend of his soul, made his funera-lia more magnificent than any before. Ptolemy and he then undertook a mid-winter campaign against the Cossseans, mountain robbers who made insecurethe road from Ecbatana to Susa, and in a forty days campaign subdued he went to Babylon, where he built a vast dockyard, began the con-struction of a fleet, and made large calculations for future public improve-ments. The new Macedo-Oriental army was organized and its disci
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