Exigentibus deinde ut ordinem cogitati sceleris exponeret, cum diu Bactra retentura regem viderentur, timuisse respondit, ne pater lxx natus annos, tanti exercitus dux, tantae pecuniae custos, interim exstingueretur, ipsique spoliato tantis viribus occidendi regis causa non  esset.
Then, when they required him to set forth the order of the proposed deed, he replied that since it seemed that Bactra would detain the king for a long time, they feared that his father, being seventy years old, the leader of so great an army and custodian of so great a treasure, might meanwhile die, and that he himself, robbed of so great strength, would have  no reason for killing the king.
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