History of Alexander the Great; His Personality And Deeds
History of Alexander the Great; His Personality And Deeds
Marshall Monroe Kirkman
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But Tomyris, having filled a skin with human blood, sought for the body of Cyrus among the slain of the Persians, and having found it, thrust his head into the skin, and insulting the dead body, said, 'Thou hast indeed ruined me though alive and victorious in battle, since thou hast taken my son by stratagem ; but I will now glut thee with blood, as I threatened/ Of the many accounts given of the end of Cyrus, this appears to me most worthy of credit *' Digitized by Google 220 ALEXANDER THE GRE...AT In this connection it will be noted further on in the conquests of Alexander, that when he had reached the farthermost point in his march to the northeast, he found it necessary to dispatch a force to the west to disperse an army of the Massagetae — descendants of the nomads who two htmdred years before had exterminated Cyrus' force — ^who, co- operating with the discontented of Sogdiana, had declared war on him. Unskilled in their manner of warfare, however, and outwitted and entrapped by their savage cunning and swiftness, a fate like that which overtook Cyrus' army befell Alexander's generals, their forces being in effect exterminated by the courageous nomads.
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