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540 "Omnes homines, qui sese student præstare cæteris animalibus, summâ ope niti decet, nè vitam silentio transeant, veluti pecora; quæ natura prona atque ventri obedientia finxit."

Darius, the son of Hytaspes, conquered Babylon. But the son and grandson of this monarch are here meant.