Hortatusque milites ad spem tantae rei, docet Sabacen, praetorem Aegypti, cecidisse in acie; Persarum praesidium et sine duce esse et invalidum, Aegyptios, semper praetoribus eorum infestos, pro sociis ipsos, non pro hostibus aestimaturos.
And having roused his soldiers to the hope offered by so great an exploit, he told them that Sabaces, the governor of Egypt, had fallen in battle; that the Persian garrison was both leaderless and weak, and that the Egyptians, always at odds with their governors, would regard them as allies, not as enemies.
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