Haud dubia fortuna; si omiserimus Scythas ultro arma inferentes, contempti ad illos, qui defecerunt, revertemur;  si vero Tanaim transierimus et ubique invictos esse nos Scytharum pernicie ac sanguine ostenderimus, quis dubitabit parere etiam Europae  victoribus? Fallitur qui terminos gloriae nostrae metitur spatio quod transituri sumus.
Our fortune is not doubtful; if we disregard the Scythians, who are attacking us without provocation, we shall return  an object of contempt to those who have revolted; if however we cross the Tanais and show by the defeat and slaughter of the Scythians that we are everywhere invincible, who will hesitate to obey those who  are victors even over Europe also? He is deceived who measures our glory by the space which we are about to cross.
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