Multitudo an vindicatura Bessum fuerit incertum est, nisi illi qui vinxerant iussu Alexandri fecisse ipsos ementiti, dubios adhuc animi terruissent.
Whether the populace would have rescued Bessus is uncertain, had not those who had bound him, by falsely saying that they had done so by order of Alexander, terrified them while their minds were still wavering.
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