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The royal pages now took over the tent of Dareius and prepared Alexander's bath and dinner and, lighting a great blaze of torches, waited for him, that he might return from the pursuit and, finding ready for him all the riches of Dareius, take it as an omen for his conquest of the empire of all Asia.1

1 Curtius 3.11.23; Justin 11.10.1-5; Plut. Alexander 20.6-8. Justin and Plut. Alexander 21.4 state that Alexander married Barsine at this time (above, 23.5, note). Curtius mentions Barsine (Curtius 3.13.14) but not the marriage.

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