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1 They are called Sabarcae in the manuscripts of Curtius. For the story cp. Curtius 9.8.4-7. Arrian. 6.15.1-4 gives completely different names and events, and it is impossible to reconcile the two accounts.
2 Curtius 9.8.8 merely says "another nation." The ethnic Sodrae recalls the name of the lowest Hindu caste, the Sudras.
3 Curtius 9.8.8; Arrian. 6.15.2 (at the junction of the Acesines and the Indus).
4 Arrian. 6.15.5-7. He revolted later, Arrian. 6.17.1-2. Curtius speaks of a people called Musicani (Curtius 9.8.8-10) and mentions this revolt (Curtius 9.8.16). Onesicritus is the source of anecdotes about this kingdom (Strabo 15.1.34; Jacoby, Fragmente der griechischen Historiker, no. 134, F 24).
5 Curtius 9.8.11-12; Arrian. 6.16.1-2 (calling him "Oxycanus").
6 Curtius 9.8.13-16; Plut. Alexander 64.1 (Sabbas; Strabo 15.1.33 has Sabus); Arrian. 6.16.3-4.
7 According to Curtius 9.8.15, this was the figure given by Cleitarchus.
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