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[7] Alexander, in the meantime, marched down to Gaza, which was garrisoned by the Persians, and took the city by storm after a siege of two months.1

1 Full accounts of the siege of Gaza are given by Curtius 4.6.7-30 and Arrian. 2.25.4-27. Cp. Plut. Alexander 25.3-4.

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