# Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἀνάβασις 4.24.3

Arrian, Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἀνάβασις, Book 4, Chapter 24. Ancient Greek.

Canonical: https://interlinea.aeterna-institute.org/library/greek/arrian/text/4.24.3

τὸν δὲ ἡγεμόνα αὐτὸν τῶν ταύτῃ Ἰνδῶν Πτολεμαῖος ὁ Λάγου πρός τινι ἤδη γηλόφῳ ὄντα κατιδὼν καὶ τῶν ὑπασπιστῶν ἔστιν οὕς ἀμφʼ αὐτὸν ξὺν πολὺ ἐλάττοσιν αὐτὸς ὤν ὅμως ἐδίωκεν ἔτι ἐκ τοῦ ἵππου· ὡς δὲ χαλεπὸς ὁ γήλοφος τῷ ἵππῳ ἀναδραμεῖν ἦν, τοῦτον μὲν αὐτοῦ καταλείπει παραδούς τινι τῶν ὑπασπιστῶν ἄγειν, αὐτὸς δὲ ὡς εἶχε πεζὸς τῷ Ἰνδῷ εἵπετο.

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Arrian, Ἀλεξάνδρου Ἀνάβασις, ed. A. G. Roos. Text: The Greek Library, from the Perseus Digital Library and other open sources, CC BY-SA 4.0. Changes: apostrophes normalised and the text divided into reading sections by Interlinea.
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