Gangabas Persae vocant humeris onera portantes; ii cum tempestatis vim tolerare non possent'quippe et procella subito nivem effuderat et humus rigebat gelu tum adstricta 'vestes, quas cum pecunia portabant, auro et purpura insignes induunt, nullo prohibere auso, cum fortuna regis etiam humillimis in ipsum licentiam faceret.
The Persians call men who carry burdens on their shoulders gangabae; these, since they could not endure the severity of the weather'for a storm had suddenly brought a fall of snow and the ground was stiff being then bound in frost'put on the robes adorned with gold and purple, which they were carrying with the money, and no one dared to forbid them, since the ill-fortune of Darius gave licence over him even to the lowest of-men.
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