but Alexander, in a letter to Antipater about the battle, did not say who it was that gave him the wound; he wrote that he had been wounded in the thigh with a dagger, but that no serious harm resulted from the wound.
Edition :
Plutarch. Plutarch's Lives. with an English Translation by. Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1919. 7.
Remark :
perpetrator: Contrary to the passage in 20.4, Darius III is not listed as perpetrator here because Alexander does not mention him as a perpetrator. Instead we assume it was an otherwise unknown soldier in Persian service.
