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Now there came to Susa at this time a body of thirty thousand Persians, all very young and selected for their bodily grace and strength.1

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.

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