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Chapter 9
1. For a useful general survey, including bibliography, see Heckel,
Jones, and Hook 2006, esp. 57–58. Berve’s discussion of the structure of
the army remains indispensable (Berve 1926: 103–29). On the specifi c
issues raised in this essay see Atkinson 1988: 413–39; 1994: 56–62.
2. “Nam cum ante equites in suam quisque gentem describerentur
seorsus a ceteris, exempto natione discrimine praefectis non utique suarum
gentium, sed delectis attribuit.”
3. “He added the infantry reinforcements to the other units, assigning
them according to their individual tribal origins, and he also formed two
lochoi in each ile, there having been no cavalry lochoi previously, and as
lochagoi he appointed men from the hetairoi who had been distinguished
for their excellence.” See Bosworth 1980–95: i, 320–21.
4. For the 6,000 infantry reinforcements see Diod. 17.65.1; Curt.5.1.40
with Bosworth 2002:71–72.
5. Curt. 5.2.3–5; “Novem qui fortissimi iudicati essent, singulis militum
milibus praefuturi erant (chiliarchas vocabant) tum primum in hunc
numerum copiis distributis.” “septimum locum Theodotus ultimum
obtinuit Hellanicus.” No corruptions in Curtius’ text are more frequent
than lacunae, and it would be the simplest scribal error to omit the
eighth of the nine names.
6. Atkinson 1994: 58–59 gives a list of possible emendations, none of
them plausible. See also Bosworth 1980–95: i, 148–49, a discussion that I
now concede is fallacious.
7. For the Ephemerides and their authenticity see Bosworth 1988b:
182–84.
8. Alexander seems to have endorsed the principle of divide and rule.
It is signifi cant that he divided the command of the Companion cavalry
after the death of Philotas. The veteran Cleitus was coupled with Alexander’s
young favorite Hephaestion who seems to have had no previous
command experience (Arr. 3.27.4: cf. Bosworth 1980–95: i, 463).
9. For his actions at Halicarnassus, which allegedly turned the tide
of battle, see Curt. 5.2.5; 8.1.36 and for his double dealing later at Susa
see Plut. Mor. 339 B–C. Atarrhias lost the sight of one eye during Philip’s
siege of Perinthus, and was clearly one of the most battle-hardened of
the hypaspist corps (cf. Berve 1926: 91–92, no. 178; Heckel 2006: 60).
Hellanicus (Berve 1926: 150, no. 298; Heckel 2006: 133) is less well
known, but he was clearly of the same mold as Atarrhias; he expertly
protected the Macedonian siege engines whose defense Alexander had
assigned to him (Arr. 1.21.5).
10. Cf. Bosworth 2002: 66–73, where the total infantry numbers in Sittacene
are estimated at something over 20,000. Contrast the calculations