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[2] Accordingly Alexander led his army on by forced marches; he bridged the Araxes River and so brought his men to the other bank.1

At this point in his advance the king was confronted by a strange and dreadful sight, one to provoke indignation against the perpetrators and sympathetic pity for the unfortunate victims.2

1 Curtius 5.5.4.

2 This story is told at somewhat greater length by Curtius 5.5.5-24, as well as by Justin 11.14.11-12. It is not given by Plutarch or Arrian.

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