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So now because he had healed Darius at Shush [48.333,32.2] (inhabited place), Khuzestan, Iran, Asia Susa Democedes had a very grand house and ate at the king's table; he had everything, except permission to return to the Greeks.
So now because he had healed Darius at Shush [48.333,32.2] (inhabited place), Khuzestan, Iran, Asia Susa Democedes had a very grand house and ate at the king's table; he had everything, except permission to return to the Greeks.
[2] When the
Egyptian physicians who until now had attended the king were about to be impaled for being less skilful than a
Greek,
Democedes interceded with the king for them and saved them; and he saved an
Elean seer, too, who had been a retainer of
Polycrates' and was forgotten among the slaves.
Democedes was a man of considerable influence with the King.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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