![]() ![]() ![]() So Alexander, having read out Poros’s letter in public before his soldiers, said to them: Because if we had needed Greece, we Indians would have subjected it long before Xerxes but as it is, we have paid no attention to it- because it is a useless nation, and there is nothing among them worth the regard of a king-everyone desires what is better. I am not going to be frightened by your battle with Darius or by all the good fortune you had in the face of the weakness of the other nations. but also I instruct you, to set off for Greece with all speed. What can you, a mere man, achieve against a god? Is it because you have destroyed the good fortune of others by meeting weaker men in battle that you think yourself more mighty than me? But I am invincible: not only am I the king of men, but even of gods-when Dionysus (who they say is a god) came here, the Indians used their own power to drive him away. ![]() King Poros of India, to Alexander, who plunders cities: I instruct you to withdraw. Alexander took it and read it out before his army. When Alexander arrived with all his forces at the border of India, letter bearers sent by Poros, king of India, met him and gave him the letter of Poros. “The glorious battle between Alexander the Great and King Porus” – 18th century tinted woodcut ![]()
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