Note 910 — Chapter XV
E. J. (Edward James) Chinnock translation
Cossaea was a district on the north-east of Susiana, which the Persian kings never subdued, but purchased the quiet of the inhabitants by paying them tribute. It is supposed to be the Cush of the Old Testament. Diodorus (xvii. 111) says that Alexander completed his conquest of the Cossaeans in forty days. Plutarch (Alex. 72) says he called the massacre of the Cossaeans his offering to the manes of Hephaestion.