[603] Supposed to be another name for the Choes.
[604] καὶ τοὺς ψιλοὺς. The usual reading is τοὺς χιλίους, 1,000 Agrianians.
[605] A tributary of the Cophen, probably what is now called the Lundye, running parallel with the Kama.
[606] Cf. Livy, xxi. 31:—“Amnis saxa glareosa volvens, nihil stabile nec tutum ingredienti praebet.”
[607] This was the capital of the Assacenians. Curtius (viii. 37) calls it Mazagae, and describes its strong position.
[608] See Bk. ii. 23 supra.
[609] Curtius (viii. 37, 38) says that the name of the queen was Cleophis, and that after the surrender she gained Alexander’s favour. He also informs us that the king died just before Alexander’s arrival.
[610] Probably Bajour, north-west of Peshawur. The position of Ora cannot be fixed.
[611] This was the king of the Indian mountaineers. See Arrian, v. 8 infra.
[612] On the ground of ἐν τῇ πόλει ξυμφυγόντες not being classical Greek, Krüger has substituted ἐν τῇ πόλει ξυμπεφευγότες, and Sintenis εἰς τὴν πόλιν ξυμφυγόντες. No one however ought to expect Arrian to be free from error, writing, as he did, in the middle of the second century of the Christian era.