At ille pervicacis ad omnia quae agitasset animi, peregrinorum militum contionem advocari iubet, Macedonibus intra castra cohibitis, et, cum frequentes coissent, adhibito interprete, talem orationem habuit: Cum ex Europa traicerem in Asiam, multas nobiles gentes, magnam vim hominum imperio meo me additurum esse sperabam.
But he, determined to carry out everything upon which he had resolved, ordered an assembly of the foreign troops to be called, while the Macedonians were kept within their camp, and when the foreign troops had come together in great numbers, he summoned an interpreter and addressed them as follows: When I was crossing from Europe into Asia, I hoped that I should add many famous nations and a great force of men to my kingdom.
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