is, dum omnes gentes infatigabili cursu lustrat, quodam loci nivali tempestate oppressus senio iam confectum Macedonem militem nimio frigore obstupefactum, ipse sublimi et propinqua igni sede sedens, animadvertit, factaque non fortunae sed aetatis utriusque aestimatione descendit, et illis manibus quibus opes Darei adflixerat corpus frigore duplicatum in suam sedem imposuit: id ei salutare futurum <dicens> quod apud Persas capital exstitisset, solium regium occupasse.
As he traversed all nations in his indefatigable career, he was caught in a snowstorm in a certain locality and himself sitting on a raised seat near a fire observed a Macedonian soldier, worn out by old age, numbed by the excessive cold. Making his assessment not of the fortune but of the age of them both, he came down and with the hands with which he had crushed Darius power he placed the body doubled up with cold on his own seat, remarking that what was a capital offence among the Persians, to have sat on the royal throne, would be salutary to him.
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