Some Aspects of the County of London Plan

Abstract

Arrian rightly discredits the story which made drive through Carmania in Bacchic revelry, to mimic the legendary triumph celebrated by Dionysus after the conquest of India. But we may safely accept his statement made on the authority of Aristobulus that Alexander in Carmania sacrificed thanks-offerings for the conquest of India, and on behalf of his army, for the safe transit through the Gedrosian desert. I This safe return of an army through so great an expanse of inhospitable wastes was indeed an achievement for which history may well give credit to the pluck and endurance of Alexander's hardy veterans and to the mastery exercised over them by their indomitable king and leader.

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