The Cambridge History of India, Vol. I: Ancient India v1.c25.98

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¹ For the battle see especially Schubert, *Die Porus-Schlacht* in *Rhein. Mus.*, Neue Folge, LVI (1901), p. 543 f. He attempts to disentangle the parts of Ptolemy and Aristobulus in Arrian's account. One critical question bearing on a reconstruction of the battle is the value to be attached to the 'Letter of Alexander' cited by Plutarch. Schubert holds it to be a later fabrication based on Clitarchus. Delbrück (*Gesch. der Kriegskunst*, I, p. 189) maintains that, although not the work of Alexander himself, it was an official bulletin given out in his name. G. Veith in *Klio*, VIII (1908), pp. 131 ff., defends against Schubert the general consistency of Arrian's narrative.