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

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NICANOR DIES. 437Satlbarzanes for <strong>the</strong> moment, <strong>and</strong> save causes <strong>of</strong> complaint.<strong>Alex<strong>and</strong>er</strong> hoped to reach Bactria before Bessus could bejoined by any <strong>of</strong> his associates. For Bessus expected <strong>the</strong>aid <strong>of</strong><strong>the</strong> Scytliians, as well as had already many <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> oldRoute <strong>from</strong> <strong>the</strong> Caspian to <strong>the</strong> Caucasus.adherents <strong>of</strong> Darius. At Susia, Nicanor, son <strong>of</strong> Parmenio,comm<strong>and</strong>er <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> shield-bearing guards, died, much to <strong>the</strong>grief <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> whole army. <strong>Alex<strong>and</strong>er</strong> was unable to delay hisadvance ; but he left Philotas behind with twenty-six hundredmen to conduct <strong>the</strong> funeral rites with becoming splendor.The plateau <strong>of</strong> Iran, as it st<strong>and</strong>s to-day, has been describedas "sterile plains, separated by equally sterile mountains,"where <strong>the</strong> temperature ranges <strong>from</strong> 0° to 120° Fahrenheit.We know that <strong>the</strong> population was greater in <strong>Alex<strong>and</strong>er</strong>'s day

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