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ἐν ᾧ δὲ Ἀλέξανδρος αὐτοῦ μένων τὸ τραῦμα ἐθεραπεύετο, ἐς τὸ στρατόπεδον, ἔνθενπερ ὡρμήθη ἐπὶ τοὺς Μαλλούς, ὁ μὲν πρῶτος λόγος ἧκεν ὅτι τεθνηκὼς εἴη ἐκ τοῦ τραύματος. καὶ τὰ μὲν πρῶτα οἰμωγὴ ἦν τῆς στρατιᾶς ξυμπάσης ἄλλου ἄλλῳ παραδιδόντος τὴν φήμην: παυσάμενοι δὲ τῆς οἰμωγῆς ἄθυμοί τε καὶ ἄποροι ἦσαν, ὅστις μὲν ἐξηγούμενος ἔσται τῆς στρατιᾶς [2] ῾πολλοῖς γὰρ δὴ ἐν ἴσῳ τὰ τῆς ἀξιώσεως ἐδόκει πρός τε αὐτοῦ Ἀλεξάνδρου καὶ πρὸς Μακεδόνων καθεστηκέναἰ, ὅπως δὲ ἀποσωθήσονται ἐς τὴν οἰκείαν, τοσούτων μὲν ἐθνῶν μαχίμων περιειργόντων σφᾶς ἐν κύκλῳ, τῶν μὲν οὔπω προσκεχωρηκότων, ἃ δὴ ὑπὲρ τῆς ἐλευθερίας εἴκαζον ἀγωνιεῖσθαι καρτερῶς, τῶν δὲ ἀποστησομένων ἀφαιρεθέντος αὐτοῖς τοῦ Ἀλεξάνδρου φόβου, ποταμῶν τε ἐν μέσῳ ἀδιαβάτων τότε δὴ ἐδόκουν εἶναι καὶ πάντα σφίσιν ἄπορα καὶ ἀμήχανα ἐρήμοις Ἀλεξάνδρου ἐφαίνετο. [3] ὡς δὲ ἧκέ ποτε λόγος ὅτι ζῇ [p. 261] Ἀλέξανδρος, τούτῳ μὲν μόγις ξυνεχώρησαν, εἰ δὲ καὶ βιώσιμός ἐστιν, οὔπω ἐπιστεύετο. ὡς δὲ καὶ γράμματα παρ᾽ αὐτοῦ ἧκεν ὅτι ὅσον οὔπω κατελεύσεται ἐπὶ τὸ στρατόπεδον, οὐδὲ ταῦτα τοῖς πολλοῖς ὑπὸ τοῦ ἄγαν δέους πιστὰ ἐφαίνετο, ἀλλὰ πλάττεσθαι γὰρ πρὸς τῶν ἀμφ᾽ αὐτὸν σωματοφυλάκων τε καὶ στρατηγῶν εἰκάζετο.
Flavii Arriani Anabasis Alexandri. Arrian. A.G. Roos. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1907. Keyboarding.
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