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Arrian
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“Your ancestors invaded Macedonia and the rest of Greece and did us great harm, though we had done them no prior injury; … [and] I have been appointed leader of the Greeks …”
Arrian (89–180) said by 180 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“This also is remarkable in India, that all Indians are free, and no Indian at all is a slave. In this the Indians agree with the Lacedaemonians. Yet the Lacedaemonians have Helots for slaves, who perform the duties of slaves; but the Indians have no slaves at all, much less is any Indian a slave.”
Arrian (89–180) said by 180 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri, Book VII : Indica, as translated by Edgar Iliff Robson (1929), p. 335
“No Indian ever went outside his own country on a warlike expedition, so righteous were they.”
Arrian (89–180) said by 180 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Arrian, Anabasis Alexandri, Book VII : Indica, as translated by Edgar Iliff Robson (1929), p. 18
“They (Indians) are remarkably brave, and superior in war to all Asiatics; they are remarkable for integrity; they are so reasonable as seldom to have recourse to law suits, and so honest as to require neither locks to their doors nor writings to bind their agreements. They are in the highest degree truthful.”
Arrian (89–180) said by 180 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: in :Sunderland, Rev. Jabez T. Indza in Bondage. Her Right to Freedom Lewis Copeland Company New York 1929p. 178. Quoted and attributed in Londhe, S. (2008). A tribute to Hinduism: Thoughts and wisdom spanning continents…
“From the time of Dionysus to Sandrocottus the Indians counted 153 kings and a period of 6042 years, but among these a republic was thrice established... and another to 300 years, and another to 120 years. The Indians also tell us that Dionysus was earlier than Heracles by fifteen generations, and that except him no one made a hostile invasion of India but that Alexander indeed came and overthrew in war all whom he attacked... The Indians also tell us that Dionysus was earlier than Heracles by fifteen generations.”
Arrian (89–180) said by 180 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Arrian (Indica, I. ix.) , quoted in K. D. Sethna, Ancient India in a New Light, 1990
“He also buried the Persian commanders and the Greek mercenaries who were killed fighting on the side of the enemy. But as many of them as he took prisoners he bound in fetters and sent them away to Macedonia to till the soil, because, though they were Greeks, they were fighting against Greece on behalf of the foreigners in opposition to the decrees which the Greeks had made in their federal council. To Athens also he sent 300 suits of Persian armour to be hung up in the Acropolis as a votive offering to Athena, and ordered this inscription to be fixed over them, "Alexander, son of Philip, and all the Greeks except the Lacedaemonians, present this offering from the spoils taken from the foreigners inhabiting Asia”
Arrian (89–180) said by 180 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Alexander sacrificed to the gods to whom it was his custom to sacrifice, and gave a public banquet, seated all the Persians, and then any persons from the other peoples who took precedence for rank or any other high quality, and he himself and those around him drank from the same bowl and poured the same libations, with the Greek soothsayers and Magi initiating the ceremony. Alexander prayed for various blessings and especially that the Macedonians and Persians should enjoy harmony as partners in government. The story prevails that those who shared the banquet were nine thousand and that they all poured the same libation and gave the one victory cry as they did.”
Arrian (89–180) said by 180 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Heracles... who is currently reported to have come as a stranger into the country is said to have been in reality a native of India. This Heracles is held in especial honour by the Sourasenoi, an Indian tribe who possess two large cities, Methora and Cleisobora, and through whose country flows a navigable river called the Jobares. But the dress which this Heracles wore, Megasthenes tells us, resembled that of the Thracian Heracles, as the Indians themselves admit. It is further said that he had a numerous progeny of male children born to him in India (for, like his Theban namesake, he married many wives) but that he had only one daughter. The name of this child was Pāndaia, and the land in which she was born and with the sovereignty of which Heracles entrusted her was called after her name Pāndaia.”
Arrian (89–180) said by 180 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Arrian (Indica, I. viii.) , quoted in K. D. Sethna, Ancient India in a New Light, 1990