Life of Alexander, 1.37.2

Plutarch  translated by Bernadotte Perrin

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2In this country, then, as it turned out, there was a great slaughter of the prisoners taken; for Alexander himself writes that he gave orders to have the inhabitants butchered, thinking that this would be to his advantage; and they say that as much coined money was found there[71] as at Susa, and that it took ten thousand pairs of mules and five thousand camels to carry away the other furniture and wealth there.

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