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[4] In the course of thirty days thereafter, he brought into submission all the cities of the satrapy.1 Then he left Hyrcania and marched to the capital of Drangine,2 where he paused and rested his army.3

1 Curtius 6.6.13-36; Arrian. 3.25.1-7.

2 Arrian. 3.25.8 calls these people "Zarangaioi." The usual term is Drangiane.

3 Diodorus has compressed the movements involved in this operation. Alexander had left Hyrcania and passed through Parthia and Aria, where he left Satibarzanes as satrap. He advanced east toward Bactria. At the revolt of Satibarzanes, he returned to Aria; the satrap in his flight must have passed Alexander going in the opposite direction. He can have encountered Satibarzanes's foot troops in the mountains east of Artacoana and not have proceeded to that city. Finally, after thirty days, he turned south into Drangiane, abandoning his original route.

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