Quem venerantibus Persis, Polypercon, qui cubabat super regem, unum ex eis mento contingentem humum per ludibrium coepit hortari, ut vehementius id quateret ad terram, elicuitque iram Alexandri quam olim animo  capere non poterat.
When the Persians paid reverence to him, Polypercon, who was reclining above the king, in mockery began to urge one of them, who touched the ground with his chin, to strike it harder against the earth, and thus aroused the anger of Alexander, which he had already been  unable to contain.
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