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24.
Megabazus easily persuaded Darius, who believed that his vision of the future was correct. Presently the king sent a message to Myrcinus which read as follows: “ Histiaeus, these are the words of Darius the king: my thoughts can show me no man who is more devoted to me and my affairs. Not words but deeds have proven this to me.
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Now, therefore, let nothing prevent you from coming to me so that I may inform you of certain great purposes which I have in mind.” Trusting these words, and proud, moreover, that he would be the king's counsellor, Histiaeus came to Sardis.
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When he had come, Darius said to him, “Histiaeus, I will tell you the reason why I sent for you. As soon as I returned from Scythia and you were gone from my sight, there was nothing which I longed for so much as seeing you and speaking with you, for I knew that the most precious of all possessions is a wise and loyal friend. That you are such I can bear witness to as regards my affairs.
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Now, since you have done well in coming here, I make you this proposal. Leave Miletus and your newly founded Thracian city and follow me to Susa, where you will have all that is mine, sharing my table and my counsels.”
Herodotus, with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.
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- Raphael Kühner, Friedrich Blass, Ausführliche Grammatik der Griechischen Sprache, Von den Adjektiven und Participien insbesondere.
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- LSJ, ἀφικνέομαι
- LSJ, βρα^χύς
- LSJ, ἐκ
- LSJ, ἐπινο-έω
- LSJ, ἐπιζητ-έω
- LSJ, εὔνοος
- LSJ, φροντ-ίζω
- LSJ, γίγνομαι
- LSJ, κατεργ-άζομαι
- LSJ, κτῆμα
- LSJ, νεό-κτιστος
- LSJ, ποιέω
- LSJ, προορ-άω
- LSJ, προτείνω
- LSJ, σύμβουλ-ος
- LSJ, σύνοιδα
- LSJ, σύσσι_τ-ος
- LSJ, ὑπερτίθημι
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