Interim equites, nobilissimus quisque et ii maxime qui Parmenionem propinqua cognatione contingebant, postquam Philotan torqueri fama vulgaverat, legem Macedonum veriti, qua cautum erat ut propinqui eorum qui regi insidiati essent cum ipsis necarentur, alii se interficiunt, alii in devios montes vastasque solitudines fugiunt, ingenti per tota castra terrore diffuso, donec rex, tumultu cognito, legem se de supplicio coniunctorum sontibus remittere edixit.
Meanwhile the cavalry, all those of the noblest birth and especially such as were nearly related to Parmenion, after the report had spread abroad that Philotas was being tortured, fearing the law of the Macedonians by which it was provided that the relatives of those who had plotted against the king should be put to death with the guilty parties, some killed themselves, others fled to out-of-the-way mountains and to lonely desert places, while great terror spread through the entire camp, until the king, learning of the tumult, made proclamation that he remitted the law providing for the punishment of those related to the guilty parties.
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