Ille se prodi, non moneri ratus, et formae profecto fiducia cupere eam quam primum dedi Alexandra, acinacem strinxit, percussurus uxorem, nisi prohibitus esset fratrum eius occursu.
Spitamenes, thinking that he was being betrayed, not advised, and that undoubtedly through confidence in her beauty his wife desired as soon as possible to be surrendered to Alexander, drew his scimitar and would have slain her if he had not been prevented by the hurried intervention of her brothers.
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