Assensu excepere ceteri hanc vocem, sed Nabarzanes, qui in eodem consilio erat, cum Besso inauditi antea facinoris societate inita, regem suum per milites quibus ambo praeerant comprehendere et vincire decreverant, ea mente ut, si Alexander ipsos insecutus foret, tradito rege vivo inirent gratiam victoris, magni profecto cepisse Dareum aestimturi, sin autem eum effugere potuissent, interfecto Dareo, regnum ipsi occuparent bellumque renovarent.
The rest received these words with approval, but Nabarzanes, who took part in the same council, had formed with Bessus a conspiracy for a crime unheard of before, of seizing their king by means of the forces which they both commanded and putting him in fetters; their purpose was that if Alexander should overtake them, they might by delivering the king alive into his hands gain the victors favour, since he would surely set a high value on the capture of Darius, but that, if they could escape Alexander, having killed Darius, they themselves might usurp the sovereignty and renew the war.
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