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…showed last 75 words of 1241 total…out from Arbela, taking the road east though the Armenian mountains, and eventually hitting Ecbatana from the north. Here Darius stopped for a while to let some stragglers join up. He made a few efforts to reorganize and rearm them and also sent a few nervous notes to his governors and generals in Bactria and the upper satrapies urging them to remain loyal. But at Gaugamela he lost his nerve and never recovered it (Green 75).