Then these presidents and satraps assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live forever.
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Jerome
AD 420
It was well said that they privily withdrew [or "went surreptitiously"] for they did not come right out with what they were aiming at, but contrived their plot against a private enemy on the pretext of honoring the king.