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[4] Here the people received him gladly, and furnishing them billets feasted the Macedonians lavishly.1 Alexander refreshed his army from its previous labours and remained more than thirty days in the city because food was plentiful and the population friendly.

1 Curtius 5.1.36-39 gives a lurid description of this entertainment, which he regarded as debauching the army.

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