§17.92.1τῷ δʼ Ἀλεξάνδρῳ πολλὰ καὶ μεγάλα δῶρα παραστήσας κύνας ἔδωκεν ἑκατὸν καὶ πεντήκοντα τοῖς μεγέθεσι καὶ ταῖς ἀλκαῖς καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις προτερήμασι θαυμαζομένους, οὓς ἔφασαν ταῖς τίγρεσιν ἐπιμεμῖχθαι.
Having presented Alexander with many magnificent gifts, he gave him one hundred and fifty dogs, admired for their size, strength, and other excellent qualities, which they said had been crossbred with tigers.
§17.92.2βουλόμενος δὲ τὸν Ἀλέξανδρον διὰ τῶν ἔργων λαβεῖν πεῖραν τῆς τῶν κυνῶν ἀρετῆς εἰσήγαγεν εἴς τι περίφραγμα λέοντα τέλειον καὶ τῶν δοθέντων κυνῶν δύο τοὺς εὐτελεστάτους προέβαλε τῷ λέοντι· τούτων δὲ κατισχυομένων ὑπὸ τοῦ θηρίου δύο ἑτέρους εἰς2αφῆκεν.
Wishing that Alexander should make trial of the dogs' excellence through actual deeds, he brought a fully grown lion into an enclosure, and set two of the least valuable of the given dogs against the lion; and when these were being overpowered by the wild beast, he let in two others.
§17.92.3τῶν δὲ τεττάρων περιγινομένων τοῦ λέοντος πεμφθείς τις ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ μετὰ μαχαίρας ἀφῄρει τὸ δεξιὸν σκέλος ἑνὸς τῶν κυνῶν.
When the four were getting the better of the lion, a certain man, sent by him with a knife, began to cut off the right leg of one of the dogs.
τοῦ δὲ βασιλέως ἀναβοήσαντος καὶ τῶν σωματοφυλάκων προσδραμόντων καὶ τῆς τοῦ Ἰνδοῦ χειρὸς ἐπιλαβομένων ὁ μὲν Σωπείθης τρεῖς ἀντὶ τούτου δώσειν ἐπηγγείλατο, ὁ δὲ κυνηγὸς ἐπιλαβόμενος τοῦ σκέλους ἔτεμνεν ἡσυχῇ κατʼ ὀλίγον.
Though the king cried out and his bodyguards ran up and seized the hand of the Indian, Sopeithes promised to give three dogs instead of this one, while the hunter, holding the leg, kept cutting quietly, little by little.
ὁ δὲ κύων οὔτε κλαγγὴν οὔτε μυγμὸν προέμενος, ἀλλὰ τοὺς ὀδόντας ἐμπεπρικὼς ἔμενεν ἕως ὅτου γενόμενος ἔξαιμος ἐναπέθανε τῷ θηρίῳ.
The dog, without uttering any cry or whimper, but keeping his teeth clenched, remained there until, having run out of blood, he died upon the wild beast.