But during the first year that Mandane was married to Cambyses, Astyages saw a second vision. He dreamed that a vine grew out of the genitals of this daughter, and that the vine covered the whole of Asia (continent) Asia .
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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