Rex fama eorum hominum constantique asseveratione motus, dimissis in urbem amicorum plerisque, alia via praeter Babylonem ducit ac ducenta inde stadia stativa collocat.
The king, influenced by the reputation of the Chaldeans and by their persistent assertion, having sent many of his friends to the city, led the army by another road past Babylon and pitched a permanent camp 200 stadia from the city.
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