Condendae urbi sedem super ripam Tanais elegerat, claustrum et iam perdomitorum et quot deinde adire decreverat; sed consilium distulit Sogdianorum nuntiata  defectio, quae Bactrianos quoque traxit.
He had chosen a site for founding a city on the bank of the Tanais, as a barrier both to those who had already been subdued and to those whom he had decided to attack later; but his design was put off by the reported revolt of the Sogdiani, which also  involved the Bactriani.
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