Note 383 — Chapter XV · FLOATING DOWN THE TIGRIS ON A KELEK
Reading edition
Creasy’s Decisive Battles of the World, p. 79 (New York, 1899).
It was at Arbela, where was to be settled once for all the question of world supremacy, that Alexander, when counseled by his generals to make a night attack on Darius, gave the famous answer οὐ κλέπτο τἠν νίκην—I steal no victory—words that were his motto during his eventful and brilliant career.