Circa regem erat et Phrygum turba et Macedonum, illa expectatione suspensa, haec sollicita ex temeraria regis fiducia; quippe serie vinculorum ita adstricta, ut unde nexus inciperet quove se conderet nec ratione nec visu perspici posset, solvere aggressus, iniecerit curam ei, ne in omen verteretur irritum inceptum.
Around the king stood a throng of Phrygians and Macedonians, the former on tiptoe of expectation, the latter in anxiety because of the kings rash self-confidence; and in fact the series of thongs was so closely bound together that where a hidden interlacing began or where it ended could be made out neither by the eye nor by calculation; and the kings attempt to undo the tangle made the throng anxious lest a failure should be regarded as an omen.
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