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This was a second success for the Persians, and Alexander saw that it was time for him to offset the discomfiture of his forces by his own intervention1 with the royal squadron and the rest of the elite horse guards, and rode hard against Dareius.2

1 This same motivation is ascribed to Alexander, Curtius 4.15.19.

2 Curtius 4.15.24-33; Arrian. 3.14.1-3.

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