According to Herodian, the Roman armies suffered a number of humiliating setbacks and defeats, while according to the Historia Augusta as well as Alexander's own dispatch to the Roman Senate, he gained great victories.

According to Diogenes Laertius, in response to Alexander's claim to have been the son of Zeus-Ammon, Anaxarchus pointed to his bleeding wound and remarked, " See the blood of a mortal, not ichor, such as flows from the veins of the immortal gods.

According to most historians, Theobald took little part in the controversy that followed the council, which eventually ended with Roger's death in 1139 and Nigel and Alexander's restoration to favour.

According to Plutarch, at the time of the Battle of the Hydaspes River, the Nanda Empire's army numbered 200, 000 infantry, 80, 000 cavalry, 8, 000 chariots, and 7, 000 war elephants, which discouraged Alexander's men and prevented their further progress into India:

According to the painting done by Aetion, of Alexander's first wedding, Hephaestion was his torch bearer ( best man ), showing by this not only his friendship, but also his support for Alexander's policies, as Alexander's choice of an Asian bride had not been a popular one.

According to Greek chroniclers, at the time of Alexander's invasion hyparchs Kubhesha, Hastin ( Astes ), and Ambhi ( Omphes ) were ruling the lower Kabul valley, Puskalavati ( modern Charasadda ), and Taxila, respectively, while Ashvajit ( chief of Aspasoi / Aspasii or Ashvayanas ) and Assakenos ( chief of Assakenoi or Ashvakayanas, both being parts of the Kambojas ) ruled the upper Kabul valley and Mazaga / Massaga ( Mashkavati ), respectively.

According to Athenaeus, she married her lover Ptolemy, who became king of Egypt, after Alexander's death.

According to Alexander's biographer Arrian, Alexander's army met the Persians on the third day of May from Abydos.

According to Green's interpretation, the riverbank was guarded by infantry, not cavalry, and Alexander's forces sustained heavy losses in the initial attempt to cross the river and were forced to retire.

According to Plutarch, at the time of Alexander's Battle of the Hydaspes River, the size of the Magadha's army further east numbered 200, 000 infantry, 80, 000 cavalry, 8, 000 chariots, and 6, 000 war elephants, which was discouraging for Alexander's men and stayed their further progress into India:

According to a historian of Gujrat district, Mansoor Behzad Butt, Bukephalus was buried in Jalalpur Sharif, but the people of Mandi Bahauddin, a district close to Jehlum, believed that their tehsil Phalia was named after Bucephalus, Alexander's dead horse.

According to five historians of antiquity ( Arrian, Curtius, Diodorus, Justin, and Plutarch ), Alexander visited the Oracle of Ammon at Siwa in the Libyan desert and rumors spread that the Oracle had revealed Alexander's father to be the deity Ammon, rather than Philip.

According to the Conversion, Mtskheta remained the chief city of " Kartli ", the medieval native name for Georgia, up until Alexander's arrival, who changed the ruling dynasty in Mtskheta by installing Azo, said to be a prince from Arian Kartli.

According to the Chronicles, after Mtskhetos ' death, Kartli broke up into several smaller, warring regions, until unity was restored by Azo, said to be one of Alexander's Macedonian generals, who was in turn expelled by the ( half-Persian ) local prince Parnawaz, and it was Parnawaz who founded the new ruling dynasty of Kartli.

According to a widely popular but controversial story, alexandrite was discovered by Nordenskiöld, on the tsarevitch Alexander's sixteenth birthday on April 17, 1834 and named Alexandrite in honor of the future Tsar of the Russian Empire.

According to Curtius Rufus, Alexander's men mocked the guest, probably out of jealousy, and accused him of being a bit of a glutton.

( According to Plutarch, when Onesicritus read this passage to his patron Lysimachus, one of Alexander's generals who went on to become a king himself, Lysimachus quipped " I wonder where I was at the time.

According to his introduction: " Scrooge being my favorite character in comic history and Barks my favourite pure cartoonist, I'll try not to get carried away too much.

According to Heimskringla, Harald had appointed his sons as client kings over the various districts of the kingdom, and intended Eric, his favourite son, to inherit the throne after his death.

According to the ancient historian Tacitus, Sejanus was also a former favourite of the wealthy Marcus Gavius Apicius, whose daughter may have been Sejanus ' first wife Apicata.

According to Paul Cook, in the few months between joining the band and meeting Spungen, Vicious was a dedicated worker and tried his hardest to learn to play ; indeed, this period was Cook's favourite in the band.

According to Radiohead's guitar tech, Peter " Plank " Clements, it is Greenwood's favourite.

According to Zhang's confession, the two had promised him rewards for assaulting the crown prince thus implicating the emperor's favourite concubine in an assassination plot.

According to Neath MP Peter Hain “ Rhodri was the party ’ s favourite and feelings ran very high " but nevertheless, in a volte-face, Hain agreed to run the campaign for Michael who he described as " the establishment candidate .” Although Morgan had the overwhelming support of Labour Party members, Alun Michael, backed by Blair and by the trade unions, duly won.

According to Albert Goldman's biography, John Lennon named " Reminiscing " as one of his favourite songs.

According to her official site, this album is her favourite.

According to El País, in 2001, fans saluted him with their ' white handkerchiefs ' ( as a terrace favourite ) after he acrobatically scored a ' wonder goal ' against Real Oviedo that year.

According to Pepys-Whiteley, this was their favourite of all of their joint productions.

According to this biography, one of Bray's favourite sayings, which he used when people complained about his enthusiastic singing and shouting, was

According to a Depeche Mode biography, Fletch recorded a solo album entitled Toast Hawaii, named after his favourite dish in the studio canteen.

According to Robert Fontenont of About. com, this was Kurt Cobain's favourite Beatles song, and was played by Nirvana whenever there were technical problems at their concerts.

According to Madonna, " True Blue " takes its title from a favourite expression of her then husband Sean Penn and to his very pure vision of love and was a direct tribute to him as well as the album, which was as a whole inspired by her " unabashed valentine " for Penn.

According to his sister Asia, Booth confided to her that he also used his position to smuggle quinine to the South during his travels there, helping the Confederacy obtain the needed drug despite the Northern blockade.

Previous attempts have included Piece Of My Heart, which was to star Renée Zellweger or Brittany Murphy ; The Gospel According To Janis, with director Penelope Spheeris and starring either Zooey Deschanel or P! nk ; and an untitled film thought to be an adaptation of Laura Joplin's Off-Broadway play about her sister, with the show's star, Laura Theodore, attached.

According to Livy, the younger of the two daughters of Servius Tullius was of fiercer temperament than her sister, yet she originally married Aruns, who had a milder disposition than his elder brother.

According to Smith's sister Katharine, the angel " was dressed in white raiment, of whiteness beyond anything Joseph had ever seen in his life, and had a girdle about his waist.

According to his sister Elisabetta, the food at the Capranica was to blame.

According to his sister he was fired soon after for shooting them with a cinematic style, getting shots of parents ' reactions and the ball traveling through the air instead of shooting the whole play.

According to the later thirteenth century Old French Continuation of William of Tyre, Raynald captured Saladin's sister in a raid on a caravan, although this claim is not attested in contemporary sources, Muslim or Frankish, instead stating that Raynald had attacked a preceding caravan, and Saladin set guards to ensure the safety of his sister and her son, who came to no harm.

According to his nephew's Memoir the first edition was prepared by Bowdler's sister, Harriet, but both were published under Thomas Bowdler's name, probably because a woman could not then publicly admit that she understood Shakespeare's racy passages.

According to William Wordsworth, the poem was inspired while Coleridge, Wordsworth, and Wordsworth's sister Dorothy were on a walking tour through the Quantock Hills in Somerset in the spring of 1798.

According to this classification, the Euarchonta are sister to the Glires ( lagomorphs and rodents ), and the two groups are combined into the clade Euarchontoglires.

According to his sister, Pope would never go for a walk without the company of his Great Dane, Bounce, and a pair of loaded pistols in his pocket.

According to it, in 231 AM Seth married his sister, Azura, who was four years younger than he was.

According to the late tradition, Munuza, the Berber governor of Iegione ( either Gijón or León ), became attracted to Pelagius ' sister and sent word to Tariq ibn Ziyad, who ordered him to capture Pelagius and send him to Córdoba.

According to Parentalia, he was " initiated " in the principles of mathematics by Dr William Holder, who married Wren's elder sister Susan ( or Susanna ) in 1643.

According to Strabo, he was born in Ioulis, on the island of Ceos, and his mother was the sister of Simonides.

According to a study of molecular and skeletal evidence by Jon Fjeldså and colleagues, the Cinnamon Ibon of the Philippines, previously considered to be a white-eye, is a sister taxon to the sparrows as defined by the HBW, best classified as a subfamily of the Passeridae.

According to the myth of Inanna's descent to the underworld, represented in parallel Sumerian and Akkadian tablets, Inanna ( Ishtar in the Akkadian texts ) set off for the netherworld, or Kur, which was ruled by her sister Ereshkigal, perhaps to take it as her own.

According to Wright's sister Angela, he would later claim that he had been subjected to a number of indignities by the interrogating officers, including having a pencil shoved into his rectum.

According to fellow poet and close friend Warren Kinthompson, he had " lost his will to live after the death of a younger sister.

According to Cassius Dio, after her father died, Augustus allowed her and her younger sister Antonia Minor to benefit from their father's estate in Rome.

According to some reports, Lennon left Rishikesh because he felt personally betrayed by rumours that Maharishi had made sexual advances toward Mia Farrow's sister Prudence, who had accompanied The Beatles on their trip.

According to the Bibliotheca, the most prominent Hesione was a Trojan princess, daughter of King Laomedon of Troy, sister of Priam and second wife of King Telamon of Salamis.

According to Pindar, the young Orestes was saved by his nurse Arsinoe ( Laodamia ) or his sister Electra, who conveyed him out of the country when Clytemnestra wished to kill him.

According to interpretatio romana, which sought the equivalence of Roman to Greek deities, she was an equivalent to Demeter, one of the Twelve Olympians of Greek religion and mythology ; this made Ceres one of Rome's twelve Di Consentes, daughter of Saturn and Ops, sister of Jupiter, mother of Proserpina by Jupiter and sister of Juno, Vesta, Neptune and Pluto.