His cogitationibus animos exedebant, cum annuntiatur equites qui sub Perdicca essent, occupatis circa Babylona campis, frumentum quod in urbem vehebatur retinuisse.
They were eating their hearts out by such thoughts as these, when it was announced that the cavalry who were under Perdiccas, having taken possession of the plains around Babylon, had held back the grain which was  being transported into the city.
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