[843] For this use of φθείρομαι, cf. Aristophanes (Plutus, 610); Alciphron, i. 13, 3; with Bergler’s note.
[844] Cf. Curtius, x. 5.
[845] She was also called Statira. See Diodorus, xvii. 107; Plutarch (Alex., 70). She is called Arsinoe by Photius.
[846] “By these two marriages, Alexander thus engrafted himself upon the two lines of antecedent Persian kings. Ochus was of the Achaemenid family, but Darius Codomannus, father of Statira, was not of that family; he began a new lineage. About the overweening regal state of Alexander, outdoing even the previous Persian kings, see Pylarchus apud Athenaeum, xii. p. 539.”—Grote.
[848] Cf. Aelian (Varia Historia, viii. 7). A copious account of this celebrated marriage feast is given in Athenæus, xii. p. 538.
[849] Cf. Curtius, x. 8.
[850] About £4,600,000. Justin, xii. 11, agrees with Arrian; but Diodorus (xvii. 109); Plutarch (Alex., 70); Curtius (x. 8) say 10,000 talents.
[851] Cf. Curtius (ix. 41); Arrian (vi. 22) supra.
[852] The Epigoni, or Afterborn, were the sons of the seven chiefs who fell in the first war against Thebes. See Herodotus, Pindar, Sophocles, etc.