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Xerxes answered and said, “ Artabanus, human life is such as you define it to be. Let us speak no more of that, nor remember evils in our present prosperous estate. But tell me this: if you had not seen the vision in your dream so clearly, would you still have held your former opinion and advised me not to march against Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas, or would you have changed your mind? Come, tell me this truly.”
Xerxes answered and said, “ Artabanus, human life is such as you define it to be. Let us speak no more of that, nor remember evils in our present prosperous estate. But tell me this: if you had not seen the vision in your dream so clearly, would you still have held your former opinion and advised me not to march against Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas, or would you have changed your mind? Come, tell me this truly.”
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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