Constabat enim orbem eoum in dicionem potuisse transire Persidis, ni illi haec civitas habili situ, et moenium magnitudine, restitisset.
For it was clear that the entire Orient might have passed into the control of Persia, had not this city with its advantageous situation and mighty walls resisted him.
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