Iamque qui Dareum vehebant equi, confossi hastis et dolore efferati, iugum quatere et regem curru excutere coeperant, cum ille veritus, ne vivus veniret in hostium potestatem, desilit et in equum qui ad hoc ipsum sequebatur imponitur, insignibus quoque imperii, ne fugam proderent, indecore abiectis.
And already the horses of Darius chariot, pierced with spears and frantic from pain, had begun to toss the yoke and shake the king from his place, when he, fearing lest he should come alive into the enemies power, leaped down and mounted upon a horse which followed for that very purpose, shamefully casting aside the tokens of his rank, that they might not betray his flight.
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