Arrian

“ He gave these officers instructions to levy as many horse and foot soldiers as they could from the country, when they returned to him and brought back the men who had been sent away with them. By this act more than by any other Alexander acquired popularity among the Macedonians. ”

“ Horace (Carm., iv. 6, 26) . ↑ Lycia was originally called Milyas; but the name was afterwards applied to the high table in the north of Lycia, extending into Pisidia. See Herodotus, i. 173. ↑ Phaselis was a seaport of Lyoia on the Gulf of Pamphylia. It is now called Tekrova. ↑ He also crowned with garlands the statue of Theodectes the rhetorician, which the people of Phaselis, his native city, had erected to his memory. This man was a friend and pupil of Aristotle, the tutor of Alexander. See Plutarch (Life of Alex., 17) ; Aristotle (Nicom. Ethics, vii. 7) . ”