Titulus facinori speciosus praeferebatur, vindicta Darei, sed fortunam,  non scelus oderat Bessi.
A specious pretext for his crime was offered, namely, the avenging of Darius, but it was the fortune, not the evil  deed, of Bessus that he hated.
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