The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c15.7

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The battle certainly was fought in the year 326 B. C., and the corresponding Attic year (=Ol. 113, 2) is supposed to have begun on June 25, 327, and ended on June 15, 326 B. C.² The close of Mounychion, the tenth month, even if the aid of an intercalary month be called in, cannot be brought down later than June 13. If there were no intercalary month, Mounychion should have ended on or about May 14. But, as we have seen, the battle occurred later than June 21, and it seems clear, therefore, that Arrian has wrongly named the Attic month. A rash proposal to substitute ‘Metageitnion’ for ‘Mounychion’, the reading of the MSS., is, as Grote observes, ‘mere conjecture’, and is, moreover, inconsistent with the statement that Hēgemōn was archon.