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NOTES TO PAGES 93–95 269
of Badian 1994b: 265–67 and Billows 1990, which give a comparable
total. The hypaspist numbers can only be guessed at, but they can hardly
have been as large as 9,000.
11. Curtius (5.2.2) simply states that there was a panel of assessors
(“iudices dedit”) which made a ranking list of men who were adjudged
outstanding in military prowess. The nine who topped the list were
assigned to the command of the newly constituted chiliarchies. The competition
was a huge attraction, and it is more than likely that Alexander
made his choice known to the assessors. Curtius makes it clear that they
were in a sense on trial themselves (“testis eadem cuiusque factorum et
de iudicibus latura sententiam”).
12. “καὶ Ἀδαῖος, χιλιάρχης οὗτος, καὶ ἄλλοι τῶν οὐκ ἠμελημένων
Μακεδόνων (“and Adaeus, who was a chiliarch, and other highly distinguished
Macedonians”). Here I accept Krüger’s reading; compare Arr.
1.16.3: ἀδελφὸς οὗτος. There are three other explicit references to Macedonians
in the passage.
13. See Arr. 1.22.2–3, where Alexander’s exploits are covered in detail,
with the usual comment that the enemy were repulsed without diffi culty
(οὐ χαλεπῶς).
14. Arrian adds that the city could have been captured had Alexander
not sounded the retreat. He desired to save Halicarnassus, as he had done
with the mercenaries at Miletus (Arr. 1.19.6).
15. Cf. Bosworth 1988b: 17–19.
16. Arr. 7.23.6: cf. Plut. Alex. 72.3–4; Hyper. Epitaph. 21; Habicht
1970: 246–50; Badian 1981: 54–59; Bosworth 1988b: 288–89.
17. ἔπινε πόρρω τῶν νυκτῶν. This is almost a mantra and is repeated
in the Ephemerides in the same words (Arr. 7.25.1; cf. Plut. Alex. 75.3–5).
Both Ptolemy and Aristobulus agreed that Alexander drank heavily during
his last fever, but Aristobulus claims that he only took wine when his
fever was well advanced and he was parched with thirst (Plut. Alex. 75.6
= FGrH 139 F 59; cf. Arr.7.29.4). For Ptolemy it was the recreational
aspect of the drinking that mattered.
18. Arr. 3.16.11; Curt. 5.2.6; see above, p. 171.
19. Tarn 1948: 161 n.1 correctly states: “κατὰ λόχους καὶ ἑκατοστύας
presumably means infantry and cavalry subdivisions.”
20. Arr. 6.27.6: διένειμε γὰρ ξύμπαντα, Ἀλέξανδρος τοῖς μὲν ἡγεμόσι
κατ’ ἄνδρα, τοῖς δὲ κατ’ ἴλας τε καὶ ἑκατοστύας τοῖς δὲ κατὰ λόχους, ὅπως
τὸ πλῆθος τῶν ὑποζυγίων τε καὶ καμήλων αὐτῷ ξυνέβαινεν.
21. Arr. 6.25.1; Strab. 15.2.5 (722). The troops deliberately killed and
devoured the pack animals.
22. That is the clear meaning of the Greek text. Brunt’s translation (“in
proportion to the total number of camels and transport animals he
received”), which is followed by Zambrini in the Mondadori edition,