Later, he discovered a conspiracy among the pages. There is a strange story that Leonnatus was so fond of wrestling, that he took trainers and dromedary-loads of sand wherever he went in Asia. If there is any truth to this, we must date it in these years. In the Summer of 327, Alexander wanted to introduce the Persian custom of proskynesis at his court...
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Most Macedonians felt offended by what they considered to be an act of slavish submissiveness. Leonnatus even started to laugh and make fun of the ritual, which caused Alexander's anger. They were reconciled, however, and in the months after the incident, we meet Leonnatus for the first time as a commander: with Ptolemy (another bodyguard) and Perdiccas (a cavalry officer), he besieged one of the mountain fortresses in Sogdia...
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