The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c15.4

c15.4

But the second statement of Arrian (*Anab.* v, 19) that the battle was fought 'in the month of Mounychion of the year when Hēgemōn was Archon in Athens' seems to be partially inaccurate. The assertion of Diodorus (xvii, 87) that the entry into Taxila, in the spring preceding the battle, occurred during the year 'in which Chremēs was archon at Athens, and in which the Romans appointed Publius Cornelius and Aulus Postumius consuls', is apparently altogether erroneous. Neither the consuls nor the archon named can be accepted as correct.