Anxium regem tantis malis circumfusi amici, ut meminisset orabant, animi sui magnitudinem unicum  remedium deficientis exercitus esse; cum ex eis qui praecesserant ad capiendum locum castris, duo occurrunt utribus aquam gestantes, ut filiis suis, quos in eodem agmine esse et aegre pati sitim non ignorabant,  succurrerent.
The king, worried by such troubles, was surrounded by his friends, who begged him to remember that the greatness of his own courage was the sole remedy for  the weakness of the army; when two of those who had gone ahead to choose a place for a camp met them, bringing water in skins, in order to aid their sons who were in that same army and whom they  knew to be suffering severely from thirst.
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