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[5] Now the naval flotilla was ready; he had prepared two hundred open galleys and eight hundred service ships.1 He gave names to the two cities which had been founded on either side of the river, calling one of them Nicaea in celebration of his victory in war, and the other Bucephala in honour of his horse, who had died in the battle against Porus.2

1 Arrian. 6.2.4: eighty triaconters and 2080 ships in all (from Ptolemy).

2 Above, chap. 89.6, and note. Arrian. 5.29.5 states that the cities had been partly destroyed by floods.

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