[240] Diodor. xvii. 29.
[241] Arrian, ii. 2, 6; Curtius, iii. 3, 19; iii. 4, 8. “Nondum enim Memnonem vitâ excessisse cognoverat (Alexander)—satis gnarus, cuncta in expedito fore, si nihil ab eo moveretur.”
[242] Diodor. xvi. 31.
[243] Diodor. xvii. 30, 31. Diodorus represents the Persian king as having begun to issue letters of convocation for the troops, after he heard the death of Memnon; which cannot be true. The letters must have been sent out before.
[244] Curtius, iii. 2.
[245] Herodot. vii. 56—and the colloquy between Xerxes and Demaratus, vii. 103, 104—where the language put by Herodotus into the mouth of Xerxes is natural and instructive. On the other hand, the superior penetration of Cyrus the younger expresses supreme contempt for the military inefficiency of an Asiatic multitude—Xenophon, Anabas. i. 7, 4. Compare the blunt language of the Arcadian Antiochus—Xen. Hellen. vii. i. 38; and Cyropæd. viii. 8, 20.
[246] Curtius, iii. 2, 10-20; Diodor. xvii. 30.
[247] Arrian, ii. 2, 1; ii. 13, 3. Curtius, iii. 3, 1.
[248] Arrian, i. 29. 6.
[249] Arrian, ii. 4, 2; Curtius, iii. 1, 22; Plutarch, Alex. 18.