Ea res Alexandrum dividere copias coegit et, ne segniter assidere uni urbi videretur, operi Perdiccan Crateronque praefecit, ipse cum expedita manu Arabiam petiit.
This state of affairs compelled Alexander to divide his forces, and lest he should seem slow in besieging one city, he left Perdiccas and Craterus in charge of that work and himself went to Arabia with a light-armed band.
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