Alexander : a history of the origin and growth of the art of war from ...

390 THE SOLDIERS REWARDED.The surrender was duly rewarded. Alexander appointedMazaeus viceroy. No doubt Mazaeus counted on this result,for Alexander's reputed generosity had preceded him. Apollodoruswas made commanding officer of the city, and Agathochief of the garrison in the citadel. Asclepiodorus was appointedcollector of customs. Mithrines, who had surrenderedSardis, Alexander made satrap of Armenia. Menes was madehyparch of Cilicia, Phoenicia and Syria, and given the dutyof keeping the roads on the line of operations free frompredatory bands, of which, since the dispersion of the Persianarms at Issus and Arbela, there were many and troublesome.It will be noticed how scrupulous Alexander always was, whileleaving the civil authority in the old channels, to place themilitary control in the hands of his own soldiers. This, aswe remember, was Cyrus' plan, and Alexander ably carriedit out.To hisarmy Alexander gave a long rest, richly deserved.No doubt these rough Macedonians enjoyed to their full thisgorgeous city of the East, with all its luxurious habits, palacesand temples. From the vast treasures captured here, accordingto Curtius and Diodorus, Alexander distributed gratuitiesto his men. He gave each Macedonian cavalryman six minseor six hundred drachmas, a sum equal to one hundred andtwenty dollars ; each Greek and light horseman five minae orone hundred dollars ; each Macedonian infantryman forty dollars; and the allied infantry and peltasts two months' extrapay. These sums at that day had many times greater purchasing;value than now. Alexander sacrificed to Belus accordingto the Babylonian rites, adding games and races inthe Macedonian manner. His ideas of merging races werebeing matured. Babylon now became a secondary base fromwhich Alexander could proceed on his march of conquest, andwhere he could accumulate his stores and material of war.