He said this because he desired adventures and wanted to be governor of Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas. Finally he worked on Xerxes and persuaded him to do this, and other things happened that helped him to persuade Xerxes.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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