The History of Ancient Greece, Its Colonies, And Conquests: From the ... 5
The History of Ancient Greece, Its Colonies, And Conquests: From the ... 5
John Gillies
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This artifice deluded not the Indians; and Poms kept his poft. The king next bad rccourfe to a different ftratagem. Having polled his cavalry in feparate detachments along the river , be commanded them to raife in the night loud fhouts of war , and to fill the bank with agi- tation and tumult, as if they had determined at all hazards to effed; their paflage. The noife roufed the enemy, and Porus conduced his' elephants tions for that pttc- YHE HISTORY OF GREECE. 20J wherever the danger threaten...ed., This fcene was c H A F* repeated feveral fucceffive nights; during which xxxix. the Barbarians were fatigued and haraCTed by per- petual alarms. Porus difcovering, as he fondly believed , that nothing was intended by this vain noife , but merely to difturb his repofe , at length dcfifted from following the motions of the Mace- donian cavalry, and remained quiet in his en- campment, having ftationed proper guards on the bank *. ' The falfe fecurity of Porus enabled Alexander to DiQ^oH- effed his long-meditated purpofe.
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