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[6] Then, when I have done this to your satisfaction, I swear by the gods of your royal house1 that I will not take off the tunic I am wearing on my arrival in Ionia until I have made Sardo,2 the largest of the islands, tributary to you.”

1 Cp. Hdt. 3.65. In the inscription at Persepolis Darius invokes Ormazd and the “gods of his race.”

2 Sardinia

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