The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c25.177

v1.c25.177

When Alexander passed on into the country of the Gedrosians (crossing from the basin of the Purali into that of the Phur) he left a European satrap, Apollophanes, to rule the territory of the Oritae, and one of his chief captains Leonnatus remained temporarily with a force in the district to drive home upon the Oritae that they were now the subjects of a great Empire, and to carry out the scheme of Greek colonisation. Leonnatus had some stiff fighting—one battle in which the loss on the native side is said to have been 6000 killed, whilst on the European side the loss, though numerically insignificant, included the satrap Apollophanes.