Proper noun
A male given name from Ancient Greek
(specifically) Arrian of Nicomedia
Source: en.wiktionary.orgArrian and Plutarch claimed that Alexander was speechless by this point, implying that this was an apocryphal story. Source: Internet
Bosworth, 67-79, notes that Arrian's attributions here are non-historic and their details almost certainly apocryphal: see Arrian, 6, 28, 1-2. Source: Internet
His discourses were transcribed and compiled by his pupil Arrian (author of the Anabasis Alexandri ). Source: Internet
Diodorus, Plutarch, Arrian and Justin all mentioned the theory that Alexander was poisoned. Source: Internet
It is told by Arrian that at the Battle of Issus the moment the Persian left went to pieces under Alexander’s attack and Darius, in his war-chariot, saw that it was cut off, he incontinently fled – indeed, he led the race for safety. Source: Internet
Justin stated that Alexander was the victim of a poisoning conspiracy, Plutarch dismissed it as a fabrication, while both Diodorus and Arrian noted that they mentioned it only for the sake of completeness. Source: Internet