At rex, periculo gloriam accersens et obscuritatem quae ceteros terrebat suam occasionem ratus, dato signo ut omnes silentio escenderent in rates, eam qua  ipse vehebatur primam iussit expelli.
But the king, inviting glory by courting danger, and thinking that the obscurity which terrified the rest was his opportunity, having given the signal for all silently to embark in the boats, ordered the one in which he himself was carried to be  pushed off first.
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