Nondum ad iactum teli perventum erat, cum Bion quidam transfuga quanto maximo cursu poterat ad regem pervenit, nuntians murices ferreos in terram diffudisse Dareum, qua hostem equites emissurum esse credebat, notatumque certo signo locum, ut fraus evitari a suis posset.
Not yet had they come within spear-range, when one Bion, a deserter, with all possible speed came to Alexander, reporting that Darius had spread iron caltrops planted in the ground over which he believed that his enemy would send forth his cavalry, and that the place had been marked by a clear sign, in order that the device might be avoided by his own men.
final_alignments\Quintus_Curtius_Alexander_Book4.json