The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c12.14

c12.14

¹ Ἀλλ᾽ οὔτε χειμὼν ἐγένετο ἐμποδὼν αὐτῷ οὔτε αἱ δυσχωρίαι . . . οὐδὲν ἄπορον Ἀλεξάνδρῳ τῶν πολεμικῶν ἦν ἐς ὅ, τι ὁρμήσειε (Arrian, *Anab.* vii, 15). Similar precautions were not required on the south of the line of march, because the hills there have ‘never afforded suitable ground for the collection of fighting bodies of men in any great strength’ (Holdich, *The Gates of India*, p. 95).