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[5] Then he put on the Persian diadem1 and dressed himself in the white robe and the Persian sash and everything else except the trousers and the long-sleeved upper garment.2 He distributed to his companions cloaks with purple borders and dressed the horses in Persian harness.

1 The Great Kings wore an upright tiara with a fillet about it; Alexander and the Hellenistic kings wore typically the fillet alone.

2 Curtius 6.6.4; Justin 12.3.8; Plut. Alexander 45.1-2. Plut. De Fortuna aut Virtute Alexandri, 1.8.329f-330a） praises Alexander for conciliating his subjects in this way.

Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.

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