Tum Aristonus orsus est dicere, Alexandrum consultum cui relinqueret regnum, voluisse optimum deligi; iudicatum autem ab ipso optimum Perdiccam  cui anulum tradidisset.
Then Aristonus began to speak, saying that Alexander, when he was asked to whom he left his kingdom, wished the best man to be chosen; moreover, he had himself judged that Perdiccas, to whom he  had handed his ring, was the best man.
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