Alexander

Both wings having been routed, the vanquished troops retired in every case upon the elephants in the centre, and were there crowded together with them, and from this point on the battle was waged at close quarters, and it was not until the eighth hour that the enemy gave up. Such then, is the account of the battle which the victor himself has given in his letters. Most historians agree that Porus was four cubits and a span[*](Six feet and three inches.) high, and that the size and majesty of his body made his elephant seem as fitting a mount for him as a horse for a horseman.