Dis invitis in ultimas terras trahi se querebantur; iam nec flumina posse adiri nec sidera pristinum servare fulgorem, vastas terras, deserta omnia occurrere; in unius hominis iactationem tot milium sanguinem impendi, fastidio esse patriam, abdicari Philippum patrem, caelum vanis cogitationibus petere regem.
They complained that against the will of the gods they were being dragged to the ends of the earth; no longer could rivers be approached, nor did the heavenly bodies keep their former brilliance, desert lands and solitude everywhere met them; to gratify the vanity of one man the blood of so many soldiers was being spent, their king disdained his native land, disowned his father Philip, and with vainglorious thoughts aspired to heaven.
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