Cuius tum universae aspectu admodum laetus, purpuratis solita vanitate spem eius inflantibus, conversus ad Charidemum, Atheniensem belli peritum et ob exilium infestum Alexandro'quippe Athenis iubente eo fuerat expulsus'percontari coepit satisne ei videretur instructus ad obterendum hostem.
Extravagantly happy at the appearance of the throng then assembled, while his courtiers puffed up his hope with their usual empty flattery, turning to Charidemus, an Athenian skilled in warfare and because of his banishment hating Alexander'for it was by his order that Charidemus had been expelled from Athens 'he proceeded to ask the Greek whether he seemed to him sufficiently equipped to trample down his enemy.
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