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| | Hostile Views of Alexander Alexander in Carmania (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21) |
 | | In any case, there is the story; I do not believe it -- and that is all I propose to say. |
 | | Up to that time Alexander's Personal Guards were seven in number: Leonnatus son of Anteas, Hephaestion son of Amyntor, Lysimachus son of Agathocles, Aristonus son of Pisaeus (all four from Pella); Perdiccas sots of Orontes, from Orestis; Ptolemy son of Lagus and Peitho son of Crateuas from Eordaea. |
 | | Now there was an eighth, Peucestas, the man who held his shield over Alexander's prostrate body. |
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