Forsitan ita dii fata ordinaverint, ut Persarum imperium, quod secundo cursu per ccxxx annos ad summum fastigium evexerant, magno motu concuterent magis quam affligerent admonerentque nos fragilitatis humanae, cuius nimia in prosperis rebus oblivio est.
Perhaps the gods have so directed the course of the fates, that the empire of the Persians, which in a successful career of 230 years they had raised to the highest pinnacle, they might smite with a mighty shock merely and not lay it low, and that they might thus remind us of human frailty, which is too often forgotten amid prosperity.
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