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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Plutarch's Lives by A. H. Clough: Alexander was no less concerned at his death, than if he had lost
an old companion or an intimate friend, and built a city, which he
named Bucephalia, in memory of him, on the bank of the river
Hydaspes. He also, we are told, built another city, and called it
after the name of a favorite dog, Peritas, which he had brought up
himself. So Sotion assures us he was informed by Potamon of
Lesbos.
But this last combat with Porus took off the edge of the
Macedonians' courage, and stayed their further progress into
India. For having found it hard enough to defeat an enemy who
brought but twenty thousand foot and two thousand horse into the
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