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After this, being pleased with his bridge of boats, Darius made a gift of ten of everything1 to Mandrocles the Samian, the architect of it; Mandrocles took the first-fruits of these and had a picture made with them, showing the whole bridge of the Bosporus, and Darius sitting aloft on his throne and his army crossing; he set this up in the temple of Hera, with this inscription: [2] ““After bridging the Bosporus that teems with fish,
Mandrocles dedicated a memorial of the floating bridge to Hera,
Having won a crown for himself, and fame for the Samians,
Doing the will of King Darius.”
” This memorialized the builder of the bridge.

1 Apparently a proverbial expression for great abundance; cp. a similar phrase in Hdt. 9.81.

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