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FINAL MEASURES. 251effect, <strong>and</strong> one <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> most to be desired. It wonld tend t<strong>of</strong>orestall <strong>the</strong> far <strong>from</strong> improbable invasion <strong>of</strong> Macedonia by<strong>the</strong> Persians. This was a danger <strong>Alex<strong>and</strong>er</strong> knew he wasconstantly running, <strong>and</strong> one to be delivered <strong>from</strong> which wasequivalent to a second army.To fidly complete his victory, <strong>the</strong> king dispatched Parmenioto reduce Dascylium on <strong>the</strong> Propontis, <strong>the</strong> residence <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>satrap <strong>of</strong> Phrygia, a measure necessary properly to protecthis rear while he advanced, as he now proposed to do, sou<strong>the</strong>rlyalong <strong>the</strong> coast.Bronze Statuette <strong>of</strong> <strong>Alex<strong>and</strong>er</strong>.(Found at Herculaneum in 1751, <strong>and</strong> thought to be a copy <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> statue knownto have been made <strong>of</strong> him by Lysippus after <strong>the</strong> battle <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> Granicus.)

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