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BUCEPHALUS (Gr. Oovas45aXos)

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 713 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BUCEPHALUS (Gr. Oovas45aXos) , the favourite Thracian See also:horse of See also:Alexander the See also:Great, which died in 326 B.C., either of wounds received in the See also:battle on the Hydaspes, or of old See also:age. In See also:commemoration Alexander built the See also:city of Bucephala (Boukephala), the site of which is almost certainly to be identified with a See also:mound on the See also:bank of the See also:river opposite the See also:modern See also:Jhelum. See especially See also:Arrian v. 2o; other stories in See also:Plutarch, Alex. 6; See also:Curtius vi. 8. For the See also:identification of Bucephala, See also:Vincent A. See also:Smith, See also:Early Hist. of See also:India (2nd ed., 1908), pp. 65, 66 See also:note.

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