Note 261 — BOOK II.
F. J. (Frederick John) Church translation
Not Livy. Cf. ix. 18, 3, where, speaking of Alexander and the Romans, he says: "Quem ne famâ quidem illis notum arbitror fuisse." The story is Greek in origin, coming from Cleitarchus (according to Pliny, Hist. Nat. iii. 9), who accompanied Alexander on his Asiatic expedition. Cf. Niebuhr, Lectures on the History of Rome, lect. 52, Grote, History of Greece, vol. xii. p. 70, note, who argue for its truth, and Mommsen, History of Rome, vol. i. p. 394, who argues against it. Dante, says Witte, used legends about Alexander now lost. Cf. Inf. xiv. 31.