Note 030
From The Invasion of Persia,part of Chapter 51 of the Decline & Fall

It is in such a style of ignorance and wonder that the Athenian orator describes the Arctic conquests of Alexander, who never advanced beyond the shores of the Caspian.

Eschines contra Ctesiphontem , tom. iii. p. 554, edit. Graec. Orator. Reiske.

This memorable cause was pleaded at Athens, Olymp. cxii. 3 (before Christ 330), in the autumn (Taylor, praefat. p. 370, etc.), about a year after the battle of Arbela; and Alexander, in the pursuit of Darius, was marching towards Hyrcania and Bactriana.