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Quotes from Anabasis Alexandri, Book VII : Indica, as translated by Edgar Iliff Robson — Arrian

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No Indian ever went outside his own country on a warlike expedition, so righteous were they.

Anabasis Alexandri, Book VII : Indica, as translated by Edgar Iliff Robson (1929)

This also is remarkable in India, that all Indians are free, and no Indian at all is a slave. In this the Indians agree with the Lacedaemonians. Yet the Lacedaemonians have Helots for slaves, who perform the duties of slaves; but the Indians have no slaves at all, much less is any Indian a slave.

Anabasis Alexandri, Book VII : Indica, as translated by Edgar Iliff Robson (1929)

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