[593] Arrian imitates Herodotus in the use of ὡς with the infinitive instead of ὥστε.
[594] This term is a Persian word meaning mountaineers. The tribe mentioned here lived between the rivers Oxus and Jaxartes, on the borders of Bactria and Sogdiana.
[595] Curtius (viii. 17) says Alexander took with him 30,000 select troops from all the conquered provinces, and that the army which he led against the Indians numbered 120,000 men.
[596] This is the Indian Caucasus, or mount Parapamisus, now called Hindu-Koosh.
[597] The Cophen is now called Cabul. Nicaea was probably on the same site as the city of Cabul. Others say it is Beghram. The Greek word Satrapes denotes a Persian viceroy. It is a corruption of a word meaning court-guardian, in the Behistûn Inscriptions written Khshatrapâ. See Rawlinson’s Herod., i. 192.
[598] Curtius (viii. 43) says that Taxiles was the title which the king of this district received. His name was Omphis.
[599] A district between the rivers Indus and Attock. Its capital, Peucela, is the modern Pekheli.
[600] The brigade of Clitus still bore the name of its commander after his death. Cf. Arrian, vii. 14 infra.
[601] These were tribes living in the north-west of the Punjab.
[602] Probably the modern Kama, a tributary of the Cabul.