[683] 100 Greek and 101 English feet.
[684] See Donaldson’s New Cratylus, sec. 178.
[685] πρὶν κατίδωσιν. In Attic, πρὶν ἄν is the regular form with the subjunctive; but in Homer and the Tragic writers ἄν is often omitted.
[686] Cf. Arrian’s Tactics, chap. 29.
[687] Diodorus (xvii. 89) says that more than 12,000 Indians were killed in this battle, over 9,000 being captured, besides 80 elephants.
[688] According to Diodorus there fell of the Macedonians 280 cavalry and more than 700 infantry. Plutarch (Alex. 60) says that the battle lasted eight hours.
[689] Curtius (viii. 50, 51) represents Porus sinking half dead, and being protected to the last by his faithful elephant. Diodorus (xvii. 88) agrees with him.
[690] Cf. Curtius, viii. 44; Justin, xii. 8.
[691] Cf. Arrian, ii. 10 supra. δεδουλωμένος τῇ γνώμῃ. The Scholiast on Thucydides iv. 34, explains this by τεταπεινωμένος φόβῳ.
[692] Cf. Plutarch (Alex., 60); Curtius, viii. 51.