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[22] Sed non alia urbs fortius obsidionem tulit: quippe et militum promptissimi cecidere et ipse rex ad ultimum periculum venit. Namque cervix eius saxo ita icta est, ut oculis caligine offusa conlaberetur, ne mentis quidem compos: exercitus certe velut erepto iam eo ingemuit.
Curtius Rufus, Quintus. Historiarum Alexandri Magni Macedonis libri qui supersunt. Edmund Hedicke. in aedibus B.G. Teubneri. Lipsiae. 1908. Keyboarding.
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