Vix fides habebatur; itaque speculatores mari in eas regiones praemissos explorare iubet ipse adesset, an praefectorum aliquis speciem praebuisset universi venientis exercitus.
They could hardly be believed; therefore Alexander ordered scouts, sent ahead by sea to those regions, to find out whether Darius was coming in person, or whether some one of his generals had made believe that the whole army was on its way.
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