Hoc modo agmen pervenit ad urbem Tarson, cui tum maxime Persae subiciebant ignem, ne opulentum oppidum hostis invaderet.
In this manner the army came to the city of Tarsus, to which at that very time the Persians were setting fire, in order that the enemy might not invade a rich city.
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