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Thereafter Alexander marched on in the direction of Persis and on the fifth day1 came to the so-called Susian Rocks.2 Here the passage was held by Ariobarzanes with a force of twenty-five thousand infantry and three hundred cavalry.3

1 Curtius 5.3.17.

2 Arrian's account (Arrian 3.18) explains that Alexander had sent on his main body of troops toward Persis along the royal road, and only undertook this pass with a flying column.

3 Curtius 5.3.17 (25,000 infantry); Arrian. 3.18.2 (40,000 infantry and 700 cavalry).

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