When Prexaspes said that he was ready to do this too, the Magi summoned the Persians together, and brought him up on to a tower and bade him speak. Then, deliberately forgetting all the Magi's instructions, he traced the lineage of Cyrus from Achaemenes downwards; when he came at last to the name of Cyrus, he recounted all the good which that king had done to Iran [53,32] (nation), Asia Persia ,
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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