[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Foreign](https://indike.org/pramana/inf) › [Latin](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la) › [Principate (31 BCE – 300 CE)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial) › [Quintus Curtius Rufus, History of Alexander](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.curtius) › 9.4.22 # Quintus Curtius Rufus, History of Alexander 9.4.22 Historiae Alexandri Magni 9.4.22 - **Language:** Latin ### [9.4.22](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.curtius.9.4.22) Omnis multitudo et maxime militaris mobilis impetu effertur: ita seditionis non remedia quam principia maiora sunt. > The king, troubled not by any fears for himself, but by the anxiety of the soldiers about their safety, called them together, and pointed out to them that those of whom they were afraid were weak and unwarlike; that after the conquest of these tribes there was nothing in their way, once they had traversed the distance now between them and the ocean, to prevent their coming to the end of the world, which would be also the end of their labours; that he had given way to their fears of the Ganges and of the numerous tribes beyond that river, and turned his arms to a quarter where the glory would be equal but the hazard less; that they were already in sight of the ocean, and were already fanned by breezes from the sea. They should not then grudge him the glory to which he aspired. They would overpass the limits reached by Hercules and Father Bacchus, and thus at a small cost bestow upon their king an immortality of fame. They should permit him to return from India with honour, and not to escape from it like a fugitive. Every assemblage, and especially one of soldiers, is readily carried away by any chance impulse, and hence the measures for quelling a mutiny are less important than the circumstances in which it originates. Never before did so eager and joyous a shout ring out as was now sent forth by the army asking him to lead them forward, and expressing the hope that the gods would prosper his arms and make him equal in glory to those whom he was emulating. > — John Watson McCrindle 1896, The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great (Curtius' books VIII–IX) - [Previous: 9.4.21](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.curtius.9.4.21) - [Next: 9.4.23](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.curtius.9.4.23) - [Up: 9.4](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.curtius.9.4) ## Translations (1) - [The Invasion of India by Alexander the Great (Curtius' books VIII–IX)](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.curtius~en-mccrindle.9.4.p6) — John Watson McCrindle 1896, English --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.curtius.9.4.22](https://indike.org/pramana/inf.la.imperial.curtius.9.4.22) · Pramāṇa