At Dareus, nuntio de adversa valitudine eius accepto, celeritate quantam capere tam grave agmen poterat ad Euphraten contendit, iunctoque eo pontibus, quinque tamen diebus traiecit exercitum, Ciliciam occupare festinans.
But Darius, after having received news of Alexanders illness, with all the speed of which so heavy an army was capable hastened to the Euphrates, spanned it with a pontoon bridge, but still got his army across within five days, in his haste to obtain possession of Cilicia.
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