Igitur cum tempestivis conviviis dies pariter noctesque consumeret, satietatem epularum ludis interpellabat, non contentus artificum quos e Graecia exciverat turba; quippe captivae iubebantur suo ritu canere inconditum et abhorrens peregrinis auribus carmen.
Alexander, therefore, when he was wasting days and nights alike in early and prolonged banquets, used to relieve the satiety of his feasts with entertainments, not content with a throng of artists whom he had summoned from Greece; for captive women were bidden to sing after their manner a song discordant and hateful to foreign ears,
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