Alexander’s Indus flotilla and in Nearchus’ fleet, is cited mainly for geographical descriptions and marvels, and treated by Arrian with contempt (vi 2, 3; Ind. 3, 6), but it may have had a far wider scope and certainly ranged further than the memoir of his voyage by Nearchus himself, which was Arrian’s chief source in the Indica.11 Clitarchus of Alexandria wrote at least twelve books on Alexander; though he may not have actually served on the expedition, the suggestion that he was not a contemporary