Vetera quoque omina, ut fere, sollicitudo revocaverat; recensebant enim Dareum in principio imperii vaginam acinacis Persicam iussisse mutari in eam formam qua Graeci uterentur, protinusque Chaldaeos interpretatos, imperium Persarum ad eos transiturum, quorum arma esset imitatus.
Worry had recalled old omens also, as is usual; for they bethought themselves that Darius at the beginning of his rule had ordered that the form of the Persian scabbard of the scimitar should be changed to that shape which the Greeks used, and that the Chaldeans had at once declared that the empire of the Persians would pass to those whose arms he had imitated.
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