At Dareus, cum Aegypto devertisse in Africam hostem comperisset, dubitaverat utrumne circa Mesopotamiam subsisteret an interiora regni sui peteret, haud dubie potentior auctor praesens futurus ultimis gentibus impigre bellum capessendi, quas aegre per praefectos suos moliebatur.
But Darius, when he learned that his enemy had turned aside from Egypt into Africa, hesitated whether to halt in the neighbourhood of Mesopotamia or to make for the interior parts of his realm, thinking that he would undoubtedly be a more influential advocate of taking up war resolutely, if he were present in person with those remote nations, which he was with difficulty arousing through his satraps.
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