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The Seventeenth Book of Diodorus: in Two Parts
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All of the force the king
adorned with shining armour and with brilliant commanders. As he marched out of Babylon, he had
with him eight hundred thousand infantry and no less than two hundred thousand cavalry.1 He kept the
Tigris on the right of his route and the Euphrates on the left, and proceeded through a rich
country capable of furnishing ample fodder for the animals and food enough for so many
soldiers.2
1 The Persian forces numbered 500,000 according to Justin 11.12.5, 1,000,000 according to Plut. Alexander 31.2, 1,000,000 foot and 40,000 horse according to Arrian. 3.8.6. Curtius gives the totals later (Curtius 4.12.13) and more reasonably: 45,000 horse and 200,000 infantry.
2 In Curtius also (Curtius 4.9.6), Dareius started his march from the left bank of the Euphrates at Babylon and crossed over to the left bank of the Tigris at some unspecified point upstream. Arrian suggests (Arrian. 3.8.3-6) that Dareius's army mustered east of the Tigris, perhaps not far from the actual battlefield.
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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