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Bessus proclaimed himself king, sacrificed to the gods, and invited his friends to a banquet.1 In the course of the drinking, he fell into an argument with one of them, Bagodaras2 by name. As the quarrel increased, Bessus lost his temper and proposed to put Bagodaras to death, but was persuaded by his friends to think better of it.

1 Curtius 7.4.1-19.

2 Curtius names this man Gobares (as corrected from the Cobares of the manuscripts).

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