Note 163 — Chapter IX · —Alexander assails the chief stronghold of the Malloi, scales the wall of the citadel, into which he leaps down though alone

Arrian (i. 11) relates that Alexander, after crossing the Hellespont, proceeded to Ilion, where, after sacrificing to the Trojan Athênê, he placed his own armour in the temple of that goddess, and took away in exchange some of the consecrated arms which had been preserved from the time of the Trojan war.