Ibi forte Coenus morbo exstinctus est; cuius morte ingemuit quidem rex, adiecit tamen propter paucos dies longam orationem eum exorsum, tamquam solus Macedoniam visurus  esset.
There, as it chanced, Coenus was taken ill and died. The king was in fact grieved by his death, but could not forbear to remark that Coenus for the sake of a few days had begun a long harangue, as if he alone  were destined to see Macedonia again.
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