But those near the Pangaean 1 mountains and the country of the Doberes and the Agrianes and the Odomanti and the Prasiad lake itself were never subdued at all by Megabazus. He did in fact try to take the lake-dwellers 2 and did so in the following manner. There is set in the midst of the lake a platform made fast on tall piles, to which one bridge gives a narrow passage from the land.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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