Ea ipsa res turbaverat feminas, quod irrupisse, non admissus videbatur; itaque mater et coniunx provolutae ad pedes orare coeperunt ut priusquam interficerentur Darei corpus ipsis patrio more sepelire permitteret; functas supremo in regem officio impigre esse morituras.
This very action disturbed the women, because he seemed to have broken in, not to have been given audience; and so the mother and the wife, prostrating themselves at his feet, began to plead that, before they were put to death, permission should be granted to them to bury Darius body in their native manner; that after performing that last duty to the king they would without reluctance meet death.
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