Intempesta nocte opprimi posse hostes; discordis moribus, linguis, ad hoc somno et improviso periculo territos, quando in nocturna trepidatione coituros? At interdiu primum terribiles occursuras facies Scytharum Bactrianorumque; hirta illis ora et intonsas comas esse, praeterea eximiam vastorum magnitudinem corporum.
In the dead of night the foe could be overwhelmed; being of discordant customs and languages, as well as terrified in their sleep by an unforeseen danger, when would they unite in the confusion of an attack by night? But in the daytime the terrible aspect of the Scythians and the Bactriani would for the first time confront the Macedonians; their faces are shaggy and their hair unshorn, to say nothing of the enormous bulk of their huge bodies.
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