[803] This man had been placed over the Oritians. See page [351] supra.
[804] Curtius (ix. 41) says that Craterus sent a messenger to the king, to say that he was holding in chains two Persian nobles, Ozines and Zeriaspes, who had been trying to effect a revolt.
[805] The Areians were famed for their skill as professional mourners. See Aeschўlus (Choëphorae, 423). For the origin of the name see Donaldson (New Cratylus, sect. 81.)
[806] ἐξηλέγχθη is substituted by Sintenis for the common reading ἐξηγγέλθη.
[807] According to Curtius (x. 1), Cleander and his colleagues were not slain, but put into prison; whereas 600 of the soldiers who had been the agents of their cruelty were put to death. Curtius says Cleander was spared for having killed Parmenio with his own hand. Cf. iii. 26 supra.
[808] The thriambus was a hymn to Bacchus, sung in festal processions in his honour. It was also used as a name of that deity, as we learn from Diodorus, iv. 5. It was afterwards used as synonymous with the Roman triumphus, by Polybius, Dionysius, and Plutarch.
[809] The Bacchanalian procession through Carmania is described by Curtius (ix. 42); Plutarch (Alex. 67); and Diodorus (xvii. 106).
[810] Diodorus (xvii. 106) says that the port into which Nearchus put was called Salmus.
[811] ἐκπεριπλεύσοντα. The Attic future of πλέω is πλεύσομαι. πλέυσω is only found in Polybius and the later writers.
[812] See Arrian (Indica, 18-43).