Quem rex ut vidit allevantem oculos, non odio, sed miseratione commotus: Quae, malum, inquit, amentia te coegit, rerum mearum cognita fama, belli fortunam experiri, cum Taxilis esset in deditos clementiae meae tam propinquum tibi exemplum?  At ille: Quoniam, inquit, percontaris, respondebo ea libertate quam interrogando fecisti; neminem me fortiorem esse censebam.
When the king saw him lifting his eyes, moved by pity, not by hatred, he said: What the mischief was the madness which forced you, knowing the fame of my exploits, to try the fortune of war, when you had Taxiles, so near a neighbour, as an example of my clemency  to those who submit? But Porus answered: Since you ask me, I will reply with that frankness which you have granted me in asking your question. I thought that no one was stronger than I.
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