Capitolo 84
those ancient days, in the minds of men that Achillas, to the moment
when these men made their aspect in the field, while evidently bearing some
commands from Ptolemy in the city, considered him/it more prudent to killing
them immediately, without feeling their communication, rather than to allow the
orders to be delivered and then to take the responsibility to disobey
them. If he could succeed in to march to Alexandria and in to take
possession of the city, and then in to expel Caesar and Cleopatra and
Ptolemy that restores to the exclusive possession of the throne, he knew
very well that the king would rejoice in the result, and you/he/she would neglect
all the irregularities on his/her part in the means from which he had brought defeasible
it, short of absolute disobedience of a known command. It is probable that anything is
the commands that these messengers were bringing him, he imagined that
they undoubtedly originated, not in the really spontaneous wish of Ptolemy, but that them
you/he/she was dictated by the authority of Caesar. Anchor, they would be commands
entering the name of Ptolemy and the universal experience of officers
serving under the military despots of those ancient days showed that,
rather than to take the responsibility to directly disobey a reality
orders once received, were surer to avoid to receive murdering him/it the
messengers.
Achillas directed therefore the officers to be grabbed and killed. Them
street was taken and accordingly it pierced through from the soldiers, and then the
bodies bore away. The soldiers that you/he/she has been found, didn't have however,
done indeed their job. There was no interest for them in such
murder in cold blood, and perhaps anything as a feeling of
compassion braked their hands. In every case, although both the men were
hopelessly wounded, one only died. The other ones lived and they recovered.
Achillas continued to advance toward the city. Caesar, finding that the
crisis that was approaching himself/herself/itself was becoming very serious in its character,
taken, him, the whole command inside the capital and it started to do