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He himself embarked with his Friends, and sailed down the river toward the southern Ocean.1 The bulk of his army marched along the bank of the river, under the command of Craterus and Hephaestion.2

When they came to the junction of the Acesines and the Hydaspes,3 he disembarked his soldiers and led them against the people called Sibians.

1 It was now the autumn of 326 B.C. (Strabo 15.1.17: "a few days before the setting of the Pleiades").

2 Craterus was on the right bank, Hephaestion on the left (Arrian. 6.2.2).

3 Cp. 95.3, note, for the river names.

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