Plus quinquaginta milia ibi reperta esse, cum Alexander eo transiret, a comitibus eius annotatum est; olim triplicem numerum fuisse, sed inter bellorum turbas maximum eorum partem praedones abegisse.
More than 50,000 were found there when Alexander crossed into that country, as was noted by his companions; that formerly there had been three times that number, but amid the confusion of the wars brigands had driven off the greatest part of them.
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