Ἀλεξάνδρου ἀνάβασις 6.17.3

6.17.3

τοῦτον μὲν δὴ ἐπὶ τῇ αὑτοῦ ἀρχῇ ἐκπέμπει αὖθις παραγγείλας παρασκευάζειν ὅσα ἐς ὑποδοχὴν τῇ στρατιᾷ· αὐτὸς δὲ Κρατερὸν μὲν τήν τε Ἀττάλου τάξιν ἄγοντα καὶ τὴν Μελεάγρου καὶ Ἀντιγένους καὶ τῶν τοξοτῶν ἔστιν οὓς καὶ τῶν ἑταίρων τε καὶ ἄλλων Μακεδόνων ὅσους ἐς Μακεδονίαν ἀπομάχους ὄντας ἤδη ἔστελλε τὴν ἐπʼ Ἀραχωτῶν καὶ Ζαραγγῶν ἔπεμπεν ἐς Καρμανίαν, καὶ τοὺς ἐλέφαντας τούτῳ ἄγειν ἔδωκεν·

Meantime he received word that Mousikanos had revolted. Thereupon he despatched the satrap Peithon, the son of Agenor, against him with an adequate force while he marched himself against the cities which had been placed under the rule of Mousikanos. Some of these he razed to the ground, reducing the inhabitants to slavery, and in others he introduced garrisons and fortified their citadels. When these operations were finished he returned to the camp and the fleet—whither Mousikanos was conducted, who had been taken prisoner by Peithon. Alexander ordered the rebel to be taken to his own country and hanged there, together with all those Brachmans who had instigated him to revolt. Then there came to him the ruler of the country of the Patalians which, as I have stated, consists of the Delta formed by the river Indus, and is larger than the Egyptian Delta. This chief surrendered to him the whole of his land and entrusted both himself and all his possessions to him. Alexander sent him back to his government with orders to make all due preparations for the reception of his expedition. He then sent away Krateros into Karmania by the route through the Arachotians and the Sarangians, leading the brigades of Attalos, Meleager, and Antigenes, along with some of the archers and such of the companions and other Macedonians as he was sending home to Macedonia as unfit for further service. He also sent away the elephants with him. The rest of the army, except that portion which with himself was sailing down to the sea, was placed under the command of Hephaistion. Peithon, who led the horse-lancers and the Agrianians, he transported to the opposite bank so that he might not be on that side of the river by which Hephaistion was to advance. Peithon was instructed to put colonists into the cities which had just been fortified, to suppress any insurrection which the Indians might attempt, to introduce settled order among them, and then to join him at Patala.
On the third day after Alexander had started on the voyage, he was informed that the Prince of Patala was fleeing from that city, taking with him most of its inhabitants, and leaving the country deserted. He accordingly accelerated his voyage down the river, and on reaching Patala found that both the city itself and the cultivated lands which lay around it had been deserted by the inhabitants. But he despatched his lightest troops in pursuit of the fugitives, and when some of these had been captured sent them on to their countrymen to bid them take courage and return, for they were free to inhabit their city and cultivate their lands as formerly; and so most of them did return.