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While Xerxes was at Acanthus, it happened that Artachaees, overseer of the digging of the canal, died of an illness. He was high in Xerxes' favor, an Achaemenid by lineage, and the tallest man in Iran [53,32] (nation), AsiaPersia, lacking four finger-breadths of five royal cubits 1 in stature, and his voice was the loudest on earth. For this reason Xerxes mourned him greatly and gave him a funeral and burial of great pomp, and the whole army poured libations on his tomb.
While Xerxes was at Acanthus, it happened that Artachaees, overseer of the digging of the canal, died of an illness. He was high in Xerxes' favor, an Achaemenid by lineage, and the tallest man in Iran [53,32] (nation), AsiaPersia, lacking four finger-breadths of five royal cubits 1 in stature, and his voice was the loudest on earth. For this reason Xerxes mourned him greatly and gave him a funeral and burial of great pomp, and the whole army poured libations on his tomb.
[2] The
Acanthians hold
Artachaees a hero, and sacrifice to him, calling upon his name. This they do at the command of an oracle.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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