Tandem ut fides facta est vera esse quae affirmaret spado, capite velato diu flevit manantibusque adhuc lacrimis, veste ab ore reiecta, ad caelum manus tendens: Di patrii inquit, primum mihi stabilite regnum; deinde, si de me iam transactum est, precor ne quis potius Asiae rex sit quam iste tam iustus hostis, tam misericors victor.
Then at last, when Darius was made to believe that what the eunuch declared was true, he covered his head and wept for a long time, then with tears still flowing he threw back the mantle from his face and, lifting his hands to heaven, said: O Gods of my fathers, above all make firm my rule, but if it be now finished with me, may no one, I pray, be king of Asia, rather than that enemy so just, that victor so merciful.
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