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the king caused his anny^ to halt, and then drew it up tn battle ar«
ray. The peasantSy in the ipreatest terror, came also, and ac-
quainted Darius with the arrival of the enemy, which he would not
at first believe, imagining that Alexander fled before him, and waa
endearnuring to escape. This news threw hit troops into the ut-
most confusion, who, in their surprise, ran to their arms with great
precipitation and disorder.
The spot where thf batile was fought, lay near the city of Istua*
; which the mountains bounded on pne side, and the sea on the other.
The plain that was situated between them both must have been
considerably broad, as the two armies encamped m it. The river
Pinarus ran throug^i the middle of this plam, from the mountain
to the sea, and divided it very nearly into two equal parts.' The
mountains formed a hollow kind of gulf, the extremity of which, in
a curved line, bounded part of- the plain.
