Minus hoc regi quam purpuratis eius displicebat; ancipitem fidem et mercede venalem proditioni imminere et dividi non ob aliud copias velle, quam ut ipsi in diversa digressi, si quid commissum esset, traderent Alexandro; nihil tutius fore, quam circumdatos eos exercitu toto obrui telis, documentum non inultae perfidiae futuros.
This advice was less displeasing to the king than to his courtiers; they declared that men of doubtful loyalty, to be bought for pay, were intent upon treachery, and wished his forces to be divided for no other purpose than that the Greeks might go off in different directions, and betray to Alexander whatever should be entrusted to them; that nothing would be more prudent than to surround them with his whole army and overwhelm them with weapons, as a lesson that treachery does not go unpunished.
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