Ipsum, ut primum gravato ebrietate mentem quies reddidit, paenituisse constat et dixisse, maiores poenas Graecis Persas daturos fuisse, si ipsum in solio regiaque Xerxis conspicere coacti essent.
It is certain that Alexander himself, as soon as sleep had restored his senses after he had been overcome by drunkenness, regretted what he had done and said that the Greeks would have been more severely avenged upon the Persians, if these had been forced to see Alexander on the throne and in the palace of Xerxes.
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