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These chapters give Darius' difficulties in restoring order at home and in the satrapies. An account of the great revolts in the Persian empire (described in the B. I.) would naturally have come in here; but H. only once (i. 130. 2 n., the Median revolt) refers to these, apart from his account (c. 150 seq.) of the revolt of Babylon. He only knows there was widespread confusion (126. 2, 127. 1).

Darius (B. I. iv. 18) mentions Intaphrenes first of ‘the Seven’; cf. 78 n. for his part in the conspiracy against the Magian. Rawlinson thinks H. underestimates his ‘revolt’, but cf. 119. 1.

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