Quippe quo maior proditionis merces foret, obicere hosti parabat gratiorem omni pecunia praedam, nobiles viros, praetorum Darei coniuges liberosque, praeter hos Graecarum urbium legatos, quos Dareus, velut in arce tutissima, in proditoris reliquerat manibus.
For in order that the reward for his treachery might be the greater, he was preparing to deliver to the enemy a booty more acceptable than any money, namely, men of high rank, the wives and children of the generals of Darius, and besides these the envoys from the Greek cities, whom Darius had left in the hands of the traitor, as if in a very safe citadel.
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