Lampsacenae vero urbis salus unius vaframenti beneficio constitit: nam cum ad excidium eius summo studio Alexander ferretur, progressumque extra moenia Anaximenen, praeceptorem suum, vidisset, quia manifestum erat futurum ut preces suas irae eius opponeret, non facturum se quod petisset iuravit.
The survival of the city of Lampsacus was thanks to a single stroke of craft. Alexander was earnestly bent on its destruction. Seeing his teacher Anaximenes come outside the walls obviously about to oppose his entreaties to his own wrath, Alexander swore that he would not do what he asked.
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