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[8] Alexander applauded their decision and gave each of them three thousand drachmae, five men's robes and the same number for women,1 two yoke of oxen, fifty sheep, and fifty bushels of wheat. He made them also exempt from all royal taxes and charged his administrative officials to see that they were harmed by no one.

1 The same figures are given by Curtius 5.5.24.

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