Et cum ille ita prorsus futurum respondisset: Censesne, inquit, tantas res, non pecudum fibras ante oculos habenti ullum esse maius impedimentum quam  vatem superstitione captum? Nec diutius quam respondit moratus, admoveri iubet scalas, cunctantibusque ceteris, evadit in murum.
And when Demophon replied that it would most certainly be so, Alexander rejoined: Do you think that to me, having before my eyes such important affairs, and not the entrails of animals, anything could be a greater hindrance than a seer enslaved by superstition?  And with no longer delay than making this answer required, he ordered the scaling ladders to be applied, and while the rest hesitated, himself mounted the wall.
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