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This was the way in which they perished, they and all their retinue. Carriages too had come with them, and servants, and all the great train they had. The Macedonians made away with all that, as well as with all the envoys themselves.
This was the way in which they perished, they and all their retinue. Carriages too had come with them, and servants, and all the great train they had. The Macedonians made away with all that, as well as with all the envoys themselves.
[2] No long time afterwards the
Persians made a great search for these men, but
Alexander had cunning enough to put an end to it by the gift of a great sum and his own sister
Gygaea to
Bubares, a
Persian and the general of those who were looking for the slain men. It was in this way, then, that the death of these
Persians was kept silent.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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