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[6] Some got to important cities and held them for Dareius, others raised tribes1 and furnishing themselves with troops from them performed appropriate duties in the time under review.

The delegates of the League of Corinth voted to send fifteen envoys with a golden wreath as a prize of valour from Greece to Alexander,2 instructing them to congratulate him on his victory in Cilicia.

1 Tarn (Alexander the Great, 2, p. 73) sees here very plausibly a reference to the revolt of Cappadocia (Curtius 4.1.34-35; 5.13).

2 Curtius 4.5.11-12.

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