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προμηθεόμενος, ‘from respect for’ = αἰδεόμενος, hence followed by the acc.; cf. ii. 172. 5.

τὠυτό. The same thought, viz. that the king would not use violence.

Darius, the eldest of Xerxes' three sons, was murdered by his brother Artaxerxes (465 B. C.) at the suggestion of Artabanus, the Vizir who slew Xerxes (Diod. xi. 69; Ctes. § 29, p. 71).

θυγατέρα: somewhat strangely in apposition to γάμον, cf. iii. 88. 2.

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