Iam consilium Alexandri dolor vicerat, et, ne cura recuperandi sua militem a proelio averteret non immerito verebatur; itaque Areten, ducem hastatorum 'sarisophoros vocabant'adversus Scythas mittit.
Already Alexanders resentment had changed his plan of action, and he feared with some reason that anxiety to recover their property might turn his soldiers from fighting; therefore he sent Aretes, leader of the lancers 'they call them sari- sophori'against the Scythians.
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