Aperiat ad hoc spectaculum oculos Dareus! exsistat ab inferis, qui illo supplicio indignus  fuit et hoc solacio dignus est! Alexander, multum collaudato Spitamene, conversus ad Bessum: Cuius, inquit, ferae rabies occupavit animum tuum, cum regem de te optime meritum prius vincire, deinde occidere sustinuisti? Sed huius parricidii mercedem falso regis nomine persolvisti tibi.
Would that Darius might open his eyes to behold the spectacle. Would that he might rise from the lower world, since he did not deserve such a  fate and merits this consolation. Alexander, after having highly praised Spitamenes, turned to Bessus and said: Of what wild beast did the frenzy enter your mind when you had the heart, first to bind, and then to kill the king who was your greatest benefactor? But the reward for this parricide you have  paid yourself by the false name of king.
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