Multas se adhuc reliquias habere nec semper inter angustias posse deprehendi; transeundum esse Alexandro Euphraten Tigrimque et Araxen et Choaspen, magna munimenta regni sui, veniendum in campos, ubi paucitate suorum erubescendum sit, in Mediam, Hyrcaniam, Bactra; et Indos, Oceani accolas, quando aditurum, ne Sogdianos et Arachosios nominem ceterasque gentes ad Caucasum et Tanain pertinentes? Senescendum fore tantum terrarum vel sine proelio obeunti.
That Darius still had many lands left, and could not always be caught amid narrow defiles; Alexander had the Euphrates and Tigris to cross, the Araxes and Choaspes, mighty defences of the Persian empire, and must come into open plains, where he would have to blush for the small number of his forces, to Media, Hyrcania, Bactra; and when would he reach the Indi, neighbours of the Ocean, not to mention the Sogdiani and the Arachosii, and the rest of the nations extending to the Caucasus and the Tanais? He must grow old merely in traversing such an expanse of lands, even if he could do so without fighting.
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