Praecipue Bessus ferox verbis, et parto per scelus regno superbus ac vix potens mentis, dicere orditur: socordia Darei crevisse hostium famam.
In particular Bessus, in insolent language and so proud of a sovereignty gained by murder as hardly to be in his right mind, began by saying that the reputation of the enemy had increased through the incapacity  of Darius.
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