[693] Diodorus (xvii. 87) says that the battle was fought in the archonship of Chremes at Athens.
[694] Nicaea is supposed to be Mong and Bucephala may be Jelalpur. See Strabo, xv. 1.
[695] Cf. Plutarch (Alex., 61). Schmieder says that Alexander could not have broken in the horse before he was sixteen years old. But since at this time he was in his twenty-ninth year he would have had him thirteen years. Consequently the horse must have been at least seventeen years old when he acquired him. Can any one believe this? Yet Plutarch also states that the horse was thirty years old at his death.
[696] Curtius (vi. 17) says this occurred in the land of the Mardians; whereas Plutarch (Alex., 44) says it happened in Hyrcania.
[697] Diodorus (xvii. 89), says Alexander made a halt of 30 days after this battle.
[698] Cf. Arrian, v. 8 supra, where an earlier embassy from Abisares is mentioned.
[699] Strabo (xv. 1) says that this Porus was a cousin of the Porus captured by Alexander.
[700] This is the Chenab. See Arrian (Indica, iii.), who says that where it joins the Indus it is 30 stades broad.
[701] Diodorus (xvii. 95) says that Alexander received a reinforcement from Greece at this river of more than 30,000 infantry and nearly 6,000 cavalry; also suits of armour for 25,000 infantry, and 100 talents of medical drugs.
[702] Μέλλειν is usually connected with the future infinitive; but Arrian frequently uses it with the present.