At Bessus occidendi protinus regis impetum ceperat; sed veritus ne gratiam Alexandri, nisi vivum eum tradidisset, inire non posset, dilato in proximam noctem sceleris consilio, agere gratias incipit, quod perfidi hominis insidias, iam Alexandri opes spectantis, prudenter cauteque vitasset; donum eum hosti laturum fuisse regis caput.
But Bessus had been seized with a strong impulse to kill Darius at once; fearing, however, that he could not find favour with Alexander unless he should deliver the king alive, putting off his wicked design to the following night, he began to give thanks because Darius had wisely and cautiously avoided the plot of a treacherous man, who already had an eye to the riches of Alexander; that he would have offered his kings life as a gift to the enemy.
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