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While these things were in progress, he was having cables prepared for
his bridges, some of papyrus and some of white flax, a business which
he entrusted to the Phoenicians and the Egyptians. He likewise laid
up stores of provisions in divers places, to save the army and the
beasts of burthen from suffering want upon their march into Greece.
He inquired carefully about all the sites, and had the stores laid up
in such as were most convenient, causing them to be brought across from
various parts of Asia and in various ways, some in transports and
others in merchantmen. The greater portion was carried to
Leuce-Acte, upon the Thracian coast; some part, however, was
conveyed to Tyrodiza, in the country of the Perinthians, some to
Doriscus, some to Eion upon the Strymon, and some to Macedonia.
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