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[2] He received from the Persian king ships and money and sailed to Crete, where he captured most of the cities and forced them to take the Persian side.1

That Amyntas who had fled from Macedonia and had gone up to Dareius had fought on the Persian side in Cilicia. He escaped, however, from the battle at Issus with four thousand mercenaries2 and got to Tripolis in Phoenicia before Alexander's arrival. Here he chose from the whole Persian fleet enough ships to transport his soldiers, and burned the rest.

1 The narrative is continued later, chaps. 62.6-63.4; 73.5-6. Cp. Curtius 4.1.38-40; Arrian. 2.13.4-6; 3.6.3.

2 A prominent Macedonian, son of Antiochus, suspected of hostility to Alexander because of his association with Alexander's cousin Amyntas (SIG （3） 258). Amyntas had deserted to the Persians about 335 B.C. (Berve, Alexanderreich 2, no. 58). Curtius 4.1.27-33 also gives him 4000 troops, Arrian. 2.13.2-3 8000.

Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.

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