[833] Cf. Strabo, xv. 1.
[834] Strabo calls this sage Mandanis.
[835] Strabo says, Alexander’s messengers summoned Mandanis to the son of Zeus.
[836] Plutarch (Alex., 65) says this philosopher’s name was Sphines; but the Greeks called him Calanus, because when he met them, instead of using the word χαῖρε greeting them, he said καλέ. The same author says that he was persuaded to come to Alexander by Taxiles. See also Strabo (xv. 1).
[837] Strabo (xv. 1) says that the voluntary death of Calanus occurred at Pasargadae; Aelian (Varia Historia, v. 6) says it was at Babylon; but Diodorus (xvii. 107) says it happened at Susa, which statement is confirmed by the fact of Nearchus being seemingly present.
[838] Cf. Arrian (Indica, 10).
[839] Cf. Arrian, vii. 13 infra; and Herodotus, vii. 40.
[840] Cf. Cicero (Tusc. Disput. v. 27).
[841] Media. See vi. 29 supra.
[842] Oxathres was killed by Alexander himself with a sarissa, or long Macedonian pike. See Plutarch (Alex. 68), who calls him Oxyartes.