Hydaspes

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专有名词
  1. The river Jhelum, on the Indian subcontinent, especially as the location of a battle fought by Alexander the Great against King Porus in 326 BCE. historical
    — 1796, William Robertson, The History of America, 1812, 1st American Edition, Volume 1, page 454, When Alexander marched along the banks of the Hydaspes and Ancesine, two of the rivers which fall into the Indus, he observed that there were many crocodiles in those rivers, and that the country produced beans of the same species with those which were common in Egypt. From these circumstances, he concluded that he had discovered the source of the Nile, and prepared a fleet to sail down the Hydaspes to Egypt.
  2. A god associated with the river. Greek

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衍生词
Battle of the Hydaspes

词源

Borrowed from Latin Hydaspēs, from Ancient Greek Ὑδάσπης (Hudáspēs), itself from Sanskrit वितस्ता (vitastā), also proposed to have been borrowed from Old Persian *Vidāspaʰ (literally “caring for horses”), from *vīd- (“to take care of”) + 𐎠𐎿𐎱 (a-s-p, “horse”) to explain the development -sp- instead of -st-, but this has no basis in any attested names for the river.
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