[743] Strabo and Curtius call this river Hyarotis.
[744] The Brachmans, or Brahmins, were a religious caste of Indians. The name was sometimes used for the people whose religion was Brahminism. Cf. Arrian (Indica, 11); Strabo, xv. 1; p. 713 ed. Casaubon.
[745] Cf. Arrian i. 11 supra.
[746] The Romans called these men duplicarii. See Livy, ii. 59; vii. 37.
[747] τοῖς ἔπειτα πυθέσθαι. Cf. Homer (Iliad, xxii. 305; ii. 119).
[748] Curtius (ix. 22) calls the physician Critobulus. Near the city of Cos stood the Asclepiēum, or temple of Asclepius, to whom the island was sacred, and from whom the chief family, the Asclepiadae, claimed descent. Curtius says:—Igitur patefacto latius vulnere, et spiculo evolso, ingens vis sanguinis manare coepit, linquique animo rex, et caligine oculis offusa, veluti moribundus extendi.
[749] Cf. Plutarch (Alex. 63); Diodorus (xvii. 98, 99); Curtius (ix. 18-23); Justin (xii. 9).
[750] As to Fame, or Rumour, see Homer (Iliad, ii. 93; Odyss. xxiv. 412); Hesiod (Works and Days, 758-762); Vergil (Aeneid, iv. 173-190); Ovid (Met. xii. 39-63); Statius (Theb. ii. 426).
[751] Curtius (ix. 18) says it was the town of the Oxydracians.
[752] Nearly 70 miles.