At illi neque obstare venientibus nec circumire praetergressos ausi funditorum maxime aspectu territi profugerant, eaque res Alexandro tutum agminis latus, quod ne uperne incesseretur timuerat, praestitit.
But they, having dared neither to oppose the Macedonians as they came up nor to surround them after they had gone past, had fled, especially alarmed by the sight of the slingers; and that action had made safe the flank of Alexanders army, which he had feared might be assailed from above.
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