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² Curtius, ix, 3. Diodorus (xvii, 95) gives higher and less credible figures, namely, 30,000 infantry and 6,000 cavalry. Both authors agree as to the number of suits of armour, which must have required an enormous transport train. Diodorus adds that 100 talents of medicines were received at the same time.