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This was the end of Polycrates' string of successes [as Amasis king of Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt had forewarned him]. But not long after, atonement for Polycrates overtook Oroetes. After the death of Cambyses and the rule of the Magi, Oroetes stayed in Sardis [28.0167,38.475] (Perseus) Sardis , where he did not help the Persians in any way to regain the power taken from them by the Medes,
This was the end of Polycrates' string of successes [as Amasis king of Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt had forewarned him]. But not long after, atonement for Polycrates overtook Oroetes. After the death of Cambyses and the rule of the Magi, Oroetes stayed in Sardis [28.0167,38.475] (Perseus) Sardis , where he did not help the Persians in any way to regain the power taken from them by the Medes,
[2] but, to the contrary, in this confusion killed two prominent
Persians,
Mitrobates, the governor from
Dascyleium, who had taunted him about
Polycrates, and
Mitrobates' son
Cranaspes; and on top of many other violent acts, he set an ambush down the road after a messenger from
Darius came with a message which displeased him and killed that messenger on his homeward journey, and concealed the man's body and horse.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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