[257] Arrian, ii. 5, 1; Diodor. xvii. 32; Curtius, iii. 7, 6.
[258] Cyrus the younger was five days in marching from Tarsus to Issus, and one day more from Issus to the gates of Kilikia and Syria.—Xenoph. Anab. i. 4, 1; Vol. IX. Chap. lxix. p. 27 of this history.
[259] Arrian, ii, 5, 11.
[260] Arrian, ii. 6.
[261] Curtius, iii. 3, 24.
[262] Curtius, iii. 7, 1.
[263] Curtius, iii. 7, 8.
[264] From Æschines (cont. Ktesiphont. p. 552) it seems that Demosthenes, and the anti-Macedonian statesmen at Athens, received letters at this moment written in high spirits, intimating that Alexander was “caught and pinned up” in Kilikia. Demosthenes (if we may believe Æschines) went about showing these letters, and boasting of the good news which was at hand. Josephus (Ant. Jud. xi. 8, 3) also reports the confident anticipations of Persian success, entertained by Sanballat at Samaria, as well as by all the Asiatics around.
[265] Arrian, ii. 6; Curtius, iii. 8, 2; Diodor. xvii. 32.
[266] Cicero, Epist. ad Famil. xv. 4. See the instructive commentary of Mützel ad Curtium, iii. 8, p. 103, 104. I have given in an [Appendix to this Volume], some explanatory comments on the ground near Issus.