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1 This is the usual term for the Macedonian royal horse guards.
2 Curtius 3.11.24-12.18; Justin 11.9.12-16; Plut. Alexander 21; Arrian. 2.12.3-8. According to the last, Ptolemy and Aristobulus wrote that Alexander sent Leonnatus to the queens, but did not visit them himself; this is the version followed by Plutarch. The personal visit of Alexander and Hephaestion is attributed to another source, not identified.
3 The usual spelling is Sisigambis, as in Curtius 3.3.22.
4 This recalls the proverbial Greek definition of a friend as a "Second Self," ascribed to Zenon in Diogenes Laertius, 7.23. Cp. also Plut. De amicorum multitudine 2.93e.
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