Bella deinde civilia quae secuta sunt mentibus augurabantur; iterum non de regno Asiae, sed de rege ipsorum ipsis sanguinem esse fundendum, novis  vulneribus veteres rumpendas cicatrices; senes, debiles, modo petita missione a iusto rege, nunc morituros pro potentia forsitan satellitis alicuius  ignobilis.
Then they foresaw the civil wars that followed. Again they would have to pour out their blood, old scars must be broken by new wounds; not to gain the rule of Asia, but to appoint a king to reign  over themselves. Aged and infirm, they who had recently asked their discharge from a legitimate king would now die perhaps in defence of the power of  some obscure subordinate.
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