Iamque ad transeundum omnia aptaverant, cum legati Scytharum xx, more gentis per castra equis vecti, nuntiare iubent regi, velle ipsos ad eum mandata  perferre.
And already they had prepared everything for crossing, when twenty envoys of the Scythians, according to the custom of their race riding through the camp on horseback, ordered announcement to be made to the king that they desired to deliver a  message to him.
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