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490 ANOTHER DEFEAT.to leave <strong>the</strong> fort, waylaid itby a cunning ambush, captured<strong>the</strong> place, <strong>and</strong> slew every man. Emboldened by his success,he advanced, burning <strong>and</strong> ravaging, to Zariaspa. He hadcollected much booty, but declined to attack <strong>the</strong> town. Afew convalescent Companions, as above stated, constitutedFinal Sogdianian Campaign.<strong>the</strong> paltry force at Zariaspa with a few attendants ; but with<strong>the</strong>m was Peithon, son <strong>of</strong> Sosides, Aristonicus, eighty Greekmercenary horsemen, <strong>and</strong> a few pages. These, though amere h<strong>and</strong>ful, were not to be dismayed. They sallied out,fell opportunely upon <strong>the</strong> Scythians, gave <strong>the</strong>m a sound beating,took away <strong>the</strong>ir booty, <strong>and</strong> slew a large number <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong>m ;after which h<strong>and</strong>some work <strong>the</strong>y were returning to Zariaspa,supposing <strong>the</strong>mselves beyond danger, <strong>and</strong> probably in looseorder, when <strong>the</strong>y fell into an ambuscade, <strong>and</strong> lost seven Companions<strong>and</strong> sixty mercenary cavalrymen. Aristonicus waskilled. Peithon, wounded, fell into <strong>the</strong> enemy's h<strong>and</strong>s. Thecity barely escaped capture.Spitamenes threatened to maketrouble, when Craterus (where he was at <strong>the</strong> moment doesnot appear), hearing <strong>of</strong> <strong>the</strong> situation by couriers, marchedagainst this chieftain, <strong>and</strong> he, conscious that he could notmeet regular troops, fled to<strong>war</strong>ds <strong>the</strong> desert with about one

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