Key to Easy Latin Stories for beginners/Part IV/V
V.A HAIRBREADTH ESCAPE.
153.Formerly a certain Sandoces was set over the city of Cyme. Darius ordered him to be led to the gallows, on finding that he, when he was judge, had pronounced an unjust sentence, after receiving a bribe. And he was already hung up; when Darius, taking an account with himself of the things done by him, discovered that his deserving actions towards the royal house were much more numerous than his misdeeds. On finding this, acknowledging that he had acted with more haste than wisdom, he ordered the man to be cut down. Thus he escaped the punishment decreed by Darius, and survived.