[123] ὑποφθάσομεν. This future is used by the later writers for the Attic ὑποφθήσομαι. It is found however in Xenophon.
[124] Craterus was one of Alexander’s best generals. On the death of the king he received the government of Macedonia and Greece in conjunction with Antipater, whose daughter he married. He fell in battle against Eumenes (B.C. 321).
[125] Calas was appointed viceroy of Phrygia. He consequently took no further part in Alexander’s campaigns after this.
[126] Alexander had three generals named Philip, two of whom are mentioned here as sons of Amyntas and Menelaüs. The third was son of Machatas, and was left in India as viceroy.
[127] Son of Tyrimmas, was commander of the Odrysian cavalry. See iii. 12 infra.
[128] Diodorus (xvii. 19) says that the Persian cavalry numbered 10,000, and their infantry 100,000. Both these numbers are inaccurate. We know from Arrian (chaps. 12 and 13) that the Persian infantry was inferior in number to that of Alexander.
[129] This is an Homeric name for Mars the war-god. In Homer Ares is the Trojan and Enyalius the Grecian war-god. Hence they are mentioned as different in Aristophanes (Pax, 457). See Paley’s note on Homer (vii. 166). As to the practice of shouting the war-cry to Mars before battle, see Xenophon (Anab., i. 8, 18; v. 2, 14). The Scholiast on Thucydides (i. 50) says that the Greeks used to sing two paeans, one to Mars before battle, another to Apollo after it.
[130] ὡς ἀνυστόν = ὡς δυνατόν. Cf. Arrian, iv. 12, 6; Xenophon (Anab., i. 8, 11; Res. Laced., i. 3).
[131] ξυνειστήκει μάχη. This is a common expression with Arrian, copied from Herodotus (i. 74, et passim).
[132] Plutarch (Alex., 16); Diodorus (xvii. 20).