Note 32 — Chapter I · THE CONQUESTS OF ALEXANDER
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Maspero, Histoire ancienne des Peuples de l’Orient, Paris, 1904, p. 706. Rawlinson, op. cit. p. 463, thinks this practice lapsed early, but Xenophon seems clear that it was in force in his time (Cyropaedia, Bk VIII. c. 6).