Quo usque enim in regno exsulabo et per fines imperii mei fugiam externum et advenam regem, cum liceat, experto belli fortunam, aut reparare quae amisi aut honesta morte defungi? Nisi forte satius est expectare victoris arbitrium et Mazaei et Mithrenis exemplo precarium accipere regnum nationis unius, ut iam malit ille gloriae suae quam irae obsequi.
How long, pray, shall I be an exile in my realm, and through the bounds of my empire flee before a foreign and alien king, when it is allowed me by trying the fortune of war either to regain what I have lost or to meet an honourable death? Unless haply it is better to await a victors will and, like Mazaeus or Mithrenes, to accept on sufferance the rule of a single province, supposing that Alexander may now prefer to gratify his vanity rather than his anger.
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