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ἔνθεν δὲ ἐς τὰ βασίλεια ᾔει τὰ Περσῶν, ἃ δὴ πρόσθεν κατέφλεξεν αὐτός, ὥς μοι λέλεκται, ὅτε οὐκ 1 ἐπῄνουν τὸ ἔργον: ἀλλ᾽ οὐδ᾽ αὐτὸς Ἀλέξανδρος ἐπανελθὼν ἐπῄνει. καὶ μὲν δὴ καὶ κατὰ Ὀρξίνου πολλοὶ λόγοι ἐλέχθησαν πρὸς Περσῶν, ὃς ἦρξε Περσῶν ἐπειδὴ Φρασαόρτης ἐτελεύτησε. [2] καὶ ἐξηλέγχθη Ορξίνης ἱερά τε ὅτι σεσυλήκει καὶ τάφους βασιλικούς, καὶ Περσῶν πολλοὺς ὅτι οὐ ξὺν δίκῃ ἀπέκτεινε. τοῦτον μὲν δὴ [p. 288] οἷς ἐτάχθη ὑπὸ Ἀλεξάνδρου ἐκρέμασαν, σατράπην δὲ Πέρσαις ἔταξε Πευκέσταν τὸν σωματοφύλακα, πιστόν τέ οἱ ἐς τὰ μάλιστα τιθέμενος τά τε ἄλλα καὶ ἐπὶ τῷ ἐν Μαλλοῖς ἔργῳ, ἵνα προεκινδύνευσέ τε καὶ συνεξέσωσεν Ἀλέξανδρον, καὶ ἄλλως τῷ βαρβαρικῷ τρόπῳ τῆς διαίτης οὐκ ἀξύμφορον: [3] ἐδήλωσε δὲ ἐσθῆτά τε εὐθὺς ὡς κατεστάθη σατραπεύειν Περσῶν μόνος τῶν ἄλλων Μακεδόνων μεταβαλὼν τὴν Μηδικὴν καὶ φωνὴν τὴν Περσικὴν ἐκμαθὼν καὶ τἆλλα ξύμπαντα ἐς τρόπον τὸν Περσικὸν κατασκευασάμενος. ἐφ᾽ οἷς Ἀλέξανδρός γε ἐπῄνει αὐτὸν καὶ οἱ Πέρσαι ὡς τὰ παρὰ σφίσι πρὸ τῶν πατρίων πρεσβεύοντι ἔχαιρον.
1 III 18, 11s.
Flavii Arriani Anabasis Alexandri. Arrian. A.G. Roos. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1907. Keyboarding.
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