Dareus, signo ad eundum dato, currum pristino more conscendit; atque Bessus ceterique parricidae procumbentes humi, quem paulo post in vinculis habituri erant, sustinuerc venerari, lacrimas etiam paenitentiae indices profuderunt.
Darius, having given the signal for marching, mounted his chariot according to his former custom; and Bessus and the rest of the traitors, prostrating themselves on the ground, had the audacity to pretend to venerate the man whom a little later they were intending to make prisoner, and they even shed tears as indications of repentance.
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