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Plutarch, 46-120?

"of Plutarch, edited for boys and girls"

On
Alexander's side, Aristobulus says there were not over four and
thirty missing, of whom nine were foot-soldiers; and in memory of
them he caused as many statues of brass, of Lysippus's making, to
be erected. And that the Greeks might participate in the honor of
his victory, he sent a portion of the spoils home to them,
particularly to the Athenians three hundred bucklers, and upon all
the rest he ordered this inscription to be set: "Alexander the son
of Philip, and the Greeks, except the Lacedaemonians, won these
from the barbarians who inhabit Asia." All the plate and purple
garments, and other things of the same kind that he took from the
Persians, except a very small quantity which he reserved for
himself, he sent as a present to his mother.
This battle presently made a great change of affairs to
Alexander's advantage. For Sardis itself, the chief seat of the
barbarians' power in the maritime provinces, and many other
considerable places, were surrendered to him; only Halicarnassus
and Miletus stood out, which he took by force, together with the
territory about them. After which he was a little unsettled in his
opinion how to proceed. Sometimes he thought it best to find out
Darius as soon as he could, and put all to the hazard of a battle;
at another time he looked upon it as a more prudent course to make
an entire reduction of the sea-coast, and not to seek the enemy
till he had first exercised his power here and made himself secure
of the resources of these provinces.


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