At this time he said no more. But about twenty days later, he sent for the most prominent of the Persians that were about him, and thus addressed them: “ Persians, I have to make known to you something which I kept most strictly concealed.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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