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Now there was a certain old soldier of the king's, whose name was
Tero, who had a son that was very familiar with and a friend to Alexander,
and who himself particularly loved the young men. This soldier was in a
manner distracted, out of the excess of the indignation he had at what
was doing; and at first he cried out aloud, as he went about, that justice
was trampled under foot; that truth was perished, and nature confounded;
and that the life of man was full of iniquity, and every thing else that
passion could suggest to a man who spared not his own life; and at last
he ventured to go to the king, and said, "Truly I think thou art a
most miserable man, when thou hearkenest to most wicked wretches, against
those that ought to be dearest to thee; since thou hast frequently resolved
that Pheroras and Salome should be put to death, and yet believest them
against thy sons; while these, by cutting off the succession of thine own
sons, leave all wholly to Antipater, and thereby choose to have thee such
a king as may be thoroughly in their own power. However, consider whether
this death of Antipater's brethren will not make him hated by the soldiers;
for there is nobody but commiserates the young men; and of the captains,
a great many show their indignation at it openly." Upon his saying
this, he named those that had such indignation; but the king ordered those
men, with Tero himself and his son, to be seized upon immediately.
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