Ac nisi Perdiccas venanti sibi Hephaestionem apparuisse ementitus per deos omnes ipsumque Hephaestionem deierasset ex ipso se cognovisse, Agathoclem non ut mortuum et vanae divinitatis titulis frustra ornatum fevisse, verum propter memoriam pristinae sodalitatis lacrimas non tenuisse, vir fortis et de rege bene meritus pietatis in amicum graves poenas innoxius pependisset.
And had not Perdiccas falsely said that while he was hunting Hephaestion had appeared to him, and had he not sworn by all the gods and by Hephaestion himself that he had learned from him that Agathocles had not wept as over a dead mortal who had vainly been honoured with the title of divinity, but that it was because of the memory of their former comradeship that he had been unable to restrain his tears, a brave man, who had deserved well of the king, although blameless, would have suffered severe punishment because of his affection for his friend.
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