72/92 The story that the Romans also sent envoys to Alexander at Babylon on the testimony of Clitarchus (Plin.Hist.Nat.iii.5, 57), from whom the other authorities who mention this fact (Aristus and Asclepiades, ap. Clitarchus certainly was contemporary with these events; nevertheless, his Life of Alexander was decidedly a historical romance rather than a history; and, looking to the silence of the trustworthy biographers (Arrian, l. |