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[2] So now, when Alexander led his army into their country, they received him kindly and he honoured the tribe with suitable gifts.1

Their neighbours, the so-called Cedrosians,2 did the same, and them too he rewarded with appropriate favours. He gave the administration of these two peoples to Tiridates.3

1 Curtius 7.3.3; Arrian. 3.27.4-5.

2 These are usually called Gedrosians.

3 Arrian. 3.27.5 reports that these tribes were left independent; it may be that this Tiridates was a native of the country (Berve, Alexanderreich, 2, no. 755). Menon became satrap of Gedrosia and Arachosia (Arrian. 3.28.1) or of Arachosia alone (Curtius 7.3.5).

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