Erat cum eo Mithrobarzanes, socer eius, praefectus equitum. Is, desperatis generi rebus, ad hostes transfugit. Id Datames ut audivit, sensit si in turbam exisset ab homine tam necessario se relictum, futurum ut ceteri consilium sequerentur.
He had with him Mithrobarzanes, his father-in-law, as commander of his cavalry, but he, regarding the position of his son-in-law as desperate, deserted to the enemy. When Datames heard of this, he knew that if it was bruited about that he had been forsaken by a man so nearly related to him, all the rest would follow the example.
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