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As the king began his march out of the Troad and came to the sanctuary of Athena,1 the sacrificant named Alexander noticed in front of the temple a statue of Ariobarzanes,2 a former satrap of Phrygia, lying fallen on the ground, together with some other favourable omens that occurred.

1 The well-known temple at Ilium (Arrian. 1.11.7; Plut. Alexander 15.4).

2 It may be that Diodorus has garbled his source; no sacrificant Alexander is otherwise mentioned, and this may be a mistake for Aristander (Berve, Alexanderreich, 2, no. 117). Ariobarzanes was satrap of Phrygia in 388-361 B.C., and then arrested and punished as a rebel. His statue may have been overthrown at that time.

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