sicut Achaemenius solium gentesque paternas excepit si forte puer, cui vivere patrem tutius, incerta formidine gaudia librat, an fidi proceres, ne pugnet vulgus habenis, cui latus Euphratae, cui Caspia limina mandet; sumere tunc arcus ipsumque onerare veretur patris equum visusque sibi nec sceptra capaci sustentare manu nec adhuc implere tiaran.
So if a boy of Achaemenes line, for whom it were safer that his father lived, chance to take over the paternal throne and peoples, he balances joy with doubtful fear: are his nobles loyal, will the people not fight the reins, to whom shall he entrust Euphrates bank or the Caspian threshold? Then he scruples to take the bow and mount his fathers very horse, thinks his hand still too small to wield the sceptre and his head to fill the diadem.
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