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[6] The king promised that he would load him with gifts,1 and under his direction Alexander did make his way over the mountain at night struggling through deep snow.2 The route crossed a very broken country, seamed by deep ravines and many gorges.

1 Curtius 5.7.12, states that he did actually receive thirty talents.

2 Curtius 5.4.18. Arrian. 3.18.5 states that this force included five squadrons of heavy cavalry and 4500 Macedonian hoplites.

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