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Alexander threw his own mantle over the body, and caused it to be embalmed, and buried in the sepulchres of the Persian kings. Now that the victory was gained, the Greeks wanted to go home, and keep all the empire subject to them; but this was not Alexander’s plan. He meant to spread Greek wisdom and training over all the world, and to rule Persians as well as Greeks for their own good.
Indeed, the Persian army was too large, since it could not be commanded by one man with any effect, and all became confusion and ruin on the first misfortune. The great generals of antiquity, Greek and Roman, rarely commanded over fifty thousand men on the field of battle; and fifty thousand, under Alexander’s circumstances, were more effective, perhaps, than two hundred thousand.
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