Arrian,
The Anabasis of Alexander — Chapter XVI
(1884)
“ 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. [6] To Athens also he sent 300 suits of Persian armour to be hung up in the Acropolis [7] as a votive offering to Athena, and ordered this inscription to be fixed over them: ”
