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In the archonship of Anticles at Athens, the Romans installed as consuls Lucius Cornelius and Quintus Popillius.1 In this year Alexander secured replacements from the Persians equal to the number of these soldiers whom he had released, and assigned a thousand of them to the bodyguards2 stationed at the court. In all respects he showed the same confidence in them as in the Macedonians.

1 Anticles was archon at Athens from July 325 to June 324 B.C. L. Cornelius Lentulus and Q. Publilius Philo were consuls in 327 B.C. (Broughton, 1.145). In his narrative, Diodorus has reached, actually, the late summer of 324 B.C. The narrative of Curtius is lost down to the story of Alexander's death.

2 Arrian. 7.6.3 states that these thousand formed a fifth squadron of the Companion Cavalry.

Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.

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