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1 Arrian. 7.6.1; Plut. Alexander 71.1. Curtius 8.5.1 mentions the organization of this force in Bactria in 327; Plut. Alexander 47.2 places it in Hyrcania in 330.
2 The account of the mutiny at Opis is broken by Diodorus into two sections; cp. chap. 109.1 below. The full accounts are Curtius 10.2.8-4.3 Justin 12.11.5-12.7; Plut. Alexander 71.1-5; Arrian 7.8-11. "Ganges" is a slip (chap. 94).
3 Justin 12.11.6; Arrian. 7.8.3.
4 The Harpalus story was well known (Plut. Alexander 41.4; Plut. Phocion 21-22; Justin 13.5.9), but was told here, in addition to Diodorus, only by Curtius. In the loss of parts of that text only the end of the story remains (Curtius 10.2.1-3), told in a similar way to that here. The account of these events in Plut. Demosthenes 25-26, may plausibly be ascribed to Theopompus, at least in part.
5 Harpalus was not actually a satrap, but director general of the royal treasury.
6 She is mentioned by Athenaeus 13.586c, who refers to accounts of her by Theopompus and Cleitarchus.
7 Athenaeus 13.586c. The considerable evidence on these two is collected by Berve, Alexanderreich, 2, nos. 231 and 676.
8 Curtius 10.2.1-3; Book 18.19.2. The collaboration of Antipater and Olympias is odd, for they were ordinarily hostile to each other.
9 Justin 13.5.9.
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- Arrian, Anabasis, 7.6.1
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- Arrian, Anabasis, 7.8.3
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