Illyrios vero et Thracas, rapto vivere assuetos, aciem hostium auro purpuraque fulgentem intueri iubebat, praedam, non arma gestantem; irent et imbellibus feminis aurum viri eriperent, aspera montium suorum iuga nudasque calles et perpetuo rigentes gelu ditibus Persarum campis agrisque mutarent.
As to the Illyrians and the Thracians, men accustomed to live by plunder, he bade them look upon the enemies army, gleaming with gold and purple, bearing booty rather than arms let them go on as men and snatch their gold from cowardly women, exchanging their bare mountain-tracks, stiff with perpetual frost, for the rich fields and plains of the Persians.
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