Porus, after the battle, was asked by Alexander, ‘How shall I treat you ?’ ‘Like a king,’ said he. Asked again if there were nothing else, he said, ‘Everything is included in those words.’ Marvelling at his sagacity and manliness, Alexander added to his kingdom more land than he had possessed before. 1
1 Cf. Moralia, 332 E and 458 B; Plutarch's Life of Alexander, chap. lx. (699C); Arrian, Anabasis, v. 19. 2.
Plutarch. Moralia. with an English Translation by. Frank Cole Babbitt. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1931. 3.
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