[353] Cf. Strabo (xvii. 1); Plutarch (Alex., 26); Diodorus (xvii. 52); Curtius (iv. 33); Ammianus (xxii. 16).
[354] We find from Valerius Maximus (i. 4) and Ammianus, l.c., that his name was Dinocrates.
[355] Krüger substitutes ἐπενόει for ἐποίει, comparing iv. 1, 3, and 4, 1 infra.
[356] See Arrian, ii. 2 supra.
[357] Methymna was, next to Mitylene, the most important city in Lesbos.
[358] Chares was an Athenian who had been one of the generals at the fatal battle of Chaeronea. Curtius (iv. 24) says that he consented to evacuate Mitylene with his force of 2,000 men on condition of a free departure.
[359] On an island in the Nile, of the same name, opposite Syene. It served as the southern frontier garrison station.
[360] The temple of Jupiter Ammon was in the oasis of Siwah, to the West of Egypt. Its ruins were discovered by Browne in 1792. This oasis is about 6 miles long and 3 broad. The people called Libyans occupied the whole of North Africa excluding Egypt. In Hebrew they are called Lubim (sunburnt). See 2 Chron. xii. 3; xvi. 8; Dan. xi. 43; Nah. iii. 9. Cf. Herodotus, ii. 32; iv. 168-199.
[361] King of the island Seriphus. Cf. Herodotus, ii. 91.
[362] The gigantic son of Poseidon and Ge.