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Straightway, then, Alexander put off his armour and went to the bath, saying: ‘Let us go and wash off the sweat of the battle in the bath of Dareius.’
‘No, indeed,’ said one of his companions,
‘but rather in that of Alexander; for the property of the conquered must belong to the conqueror, and be called his.’
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1919. 7.
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