When Xerxes came to Acanthus, he declared the Acanthians his guests and friends, and gave them Median clothing, praising them for the zeal with which he saw them furthering his campaign, and for what he heard of the digging of the canal.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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