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[8] As he began immediately to carry out these threats, the natives were terrified and returned the horse and sent with it their costliest gifts. They sent also fifty men to beg forgiveness. Alexander took the most important of these as hostages.1

1 Curtius 6.5.18-21; Plut. Alexander 44; Arrian. 5.19.4-6 (told as an anecdote at the time of the animal's death).

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