Quae quamdiu propter caeli intemperiem Indiam potius Macedonas petituros crediderant, oboedienter imperata fecerunt; postquam adventare Alexandrum compertum est, in suos quisque vicos dilapsi,  Bessum reliquerunt.
These, so long as they believed that the Macedonians because of the rigour of the climate would be more likely to go to India, carried out his orders obediently; after they learned that Alexander was coming against them, they slipped away each to his own village and  deserted Bessus.
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