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Now he set out on the road to Persepolis, and while he was on the road received a letter from the governor of the city, whose name was Tiridates.1 It stated that if he arrived ahead of those who planned to defend the city for Dareius, he would become master of it, for Tiridates would betray it to him.

1 "Custos pecuniae regiae," Curtius 5.5.2.

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