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[2] These were five hundred in number, and were despised when they attacked the walls.1 Some three thousand soldiers issued out of the city, whereupon Alexander's task force pretended to be frightened and fled.

1 Curtius 9.8.17-19 ("at the extremity of the realm of Sambus"); Arrian. 6.16.5. The same figures are given by Curtius, who identifies the "five hundred" as Agriani.

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