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[2] The satrap of Ionia Spithrobates, a Persian by birth and son-in-law of King Dareius, a man of superior courage, hurled himself at the Macedonian lines with a large body of cavalry, and with an array of forty companions, all Royal Relatives1 of outstanding valour, pressed hard on the opposite line and in a fierce attack slew some of his opponents and wounded others.

1 This was an honorary title of high nobility in the Persian Empire, as later in the Hellenistic kingdoms.

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