previous next

After he had taken a number of other cities1 by storm and had slaughtered their defenders, he came to the "rock" called Aornus.2 Here the surviving natives had taken refuge because of its great strength.

1 Curtius 8.11.2.

2 For the term "rock" see above on chap. 28.1, note. For the whole story cp. Curtius 8.11; Justin 12.7.12-13; Plut. Alexander 58.3; Arrian. 4.28.7-30.4. The location has been identified by Sir A. Stein, On Alexander's Track to the Indus (1929), chaps. 16-21.

Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.

An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.

load focus Greek (1989)
hide Places (automatically extracted)

View a map of the most frequently mentioned places in this document.

Download Pleiades ancient places geospacial dataset for this text.

hide Dates (automatically extracted)
Sort dates alphabetically, as they appear on the page, by frequency
Click on a date to search for it in this document.
1929 AD (1)
hide Display Preferences
Greek Display:
Arabic Display:
View by Default:
Browse Bar: