These startling quantities of gold supported Alexander's campaign to the end of the Earth-India-and spread around wherever he set his footsteps. Even today, staters are sometimes dug out of the ground, telling tales of the heroic deeds of millennia ago. New life for old coins
這些數量驚人的黃金，支持著亞歷山大一路東征到「世界的盡頭」──印度，並隨著他的足跡流傳四方，至今還不時有「亞歷山得斯」金幣出土，對人們述說著千年以前的英雄事蹟。