Illi iussi considere affirmant non Macedonas quam ipsos tristiores fuisse cognito vulnere ipsius; cuius si auctorem repperissent, dedituros fuisse; cum dis enim pugnare sacrilegos tantum.
The envoys, when bidden to be seated, declared that the Macedonians had not been more sorrowful than they themselves on hearing of the wound; that if they could have discovered who had inflicted it, they would have given him up; for that only the impious  warred with the gods.
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