alexander won in the war of porus and alexander.
alexander won in the war of porus and alexander.
who won in the war of porus and alexander?
alexander
king porus is due to marry axiane when he hears news that alexander the great is threatening his kingdom. hephaestion arrives and offers porus the choice of submission to alexander or war. porus chooses to resist. in the ensuing battle, porus is abandoned by his men but bravely fights single-handedly against a band of enemies, until he is captured. he pretends to be a simple officer. alexander, who admires his courage, lets him go free. axiane now arrives and begs alexander to show mercy. alexander agrees but only if porus submits. porus, however, renews the fight. alexander besieges him and just as porus is about to be captured again, axiane throws herself in the way of alexander's soldiers. alexander asks porus how he wishes to be treated. he replies: as a king. alexander allows porus to keep his lands and axiane. porus is moved and offers alexander his loyalty and friendship.
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malo has been spying on the lovers, volivia and sartagones, and he rushes on to tell porus he has seen them together, presumably all night since it is not morning. porus is furious, because he hates sartagones, and declares he will disown his daughter. ... porus and malo hide as the lovers appear. now sartagones and volivia swear to love each other, but she anxiously begs sartagones to ask her father's blessing, assuring him that porus is good hearted. porus suddenly emerges and confronts sartagones, evoking their ancient family feud. volivia pleads, but porus is adamant. then sartagones draws his sword, asking "will not she be mine?" porus refuses, whereupon sartagones points the sword at his own breast. but porus, whose anger turns in a flash to sympathy, strikes the sword at once from sartagones's hand, singing with volivia, "halt ein!" ["stop!"] ... now porus immediately turns magnanimous, ... declaring "since you love her so much, i will bestow her upon you" and affirms his friendship with sartagones. malo, upset by all this, leaves the stage, whereupon the three main characters -- the father and the two lovers -- close the first scene in a joyful trio of mutual affection.
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