Alexander the Great censored the defeat of the Polytimetus

Alexander the Great forbade the survivors of the Battle of the Polytimetus from revealing the reality of this disaster under penalty of death. This decision testifies to the deep distress of the Macedonian sovereign in the face of the stinging defeat inflicted by Spitamenes. More than two years of difficult struggles in Sogdiana and Bactria marked this campaign conducted between 329 and 327 BC.