[673] About the month of May. See chap. 12 infra; also Curtius, viii. 45, 46. Strabo (xv. 1) quotes from Aristobulus describing the rainy season at the time of Alexander’s battle with Porus at the Hydaspes.
[674] Cf. Arrian, i. 14 supra.
[675] ἀλλὰ κενόν is Krüger’s reading, instead of ἀλλ’ ἐκεῖνον.
[676] ἄλσει is Abicht’s reading for εἴδει.
[677] About 17 miles.
[678] This use of πρίν with infinitive after negative clauses, is contrary to Attic usage.
[679] The perf. pass. πέπηγμαι is used by Arrian and Dionysius, but by Homer and the Attic writers the form used is πέπηγα. Doric, πέπαγα.
[680] Seleucus Nicator, the most powerful of Alexander’s successors, became king of Syria and founder of the dynasty of the Seleucidae, which came to an end in B.C. 79.
[681] For this use of ὅσον, cf. Homer (Iliad, ix. 354); Herodotus, iv. 45; Plato (Gorgias, 485 A; Euthydemus, 273 A).
[682] Compare the passage of the Rhone by Hannibal. (See Livy, xxi. 26-28; Polybius, iii. 45, 46.)