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[5] His whole array looked very much like a city, for the elephants resembled towers, and the soldiers between them curtain walls.1 Alexander viewed the enemy's dispositions and arranged his own troops appropriately.

1 The same comparison in Curtius 8.14.13. The other writers do not place infantry between the elephants.

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