Haud secus quam par erat territus, qui Indos atque ultima Orientis peragrare statuisset, praefectos copiarum in praetorium contrahit, obortisque lacrimis, ex medio gloriae spatio revocari se, victi magis quam victoris  fortunam in patriam relaturum, conquestus est; nec sibi ignaviam militum obstare, sed deum invidiam, qui fortissimis viris subitum patriae desiderium admovissent, paulo post in eandem cum maiore laude famaque redituris.
Alarmed, as was natural, the king, who had determined to traverse the lands of the Indi and the remotest parts of the Orient, summoned the leaders of his forces to his tent, and, with tears in his eyes, complained that he was being recalled from the midcourse of his glory, to take back to his native land the fortune of one who was vanquished rather than  that of a victor; that it was not cowardice on the part of his soldiers that stood in his way, but the envy of the gods, who had inspired in the bravest of men a sudden longing for their native land, to which they would return a little later with greater glory and fame.
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