Dareios

Yet, the name Dareios, possibly a reminder of the Persian domination for more than two centuries of Pisidia, was quite common among Sagalassos 'elite, just as they continued to use other dynastic names, such as Antiochos, Seleukos, and Attalos too: the first of the local Tiberii Claudii to become a Roman citizen under Claudius or Nero was Tib.

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How, think you, will king Dareios be content to receive such an insult; and how shall this which ye do be well for you, if ye take him away from us?

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Demokedes was afraid that Dareios was making trial of him, and did not make haste to accept all that was offered, but said that he would leave his own things where they were, so that he might have them when he came back; he said however that he accepted the merchant ship which Dareios promised him for the presents to his brothers.

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Spartans of noble birth and in wealth attaining to the first rank, voluntarily submitted to pay the penalty to Xerxes for the heralds of Dareios which had perished at Sparta.

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Dareios; and Dareios both received him with great honour as a guest, and also gave him land and cities.

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When they had thus become six, Dareios the son of Hystaspes arrived at Susa, having come from the land of Persia, for of this his father was governor.

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Syloson, seeing that Dareios very greatly desired the mantle, by some divine inspiration said: “I will not sell this for any sum, but I will give it thee for nothing, if, as it appears, it must be thine at all costs.”

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Dareios then, having thus given command to him also, sent them away to the sea.

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Accordingly, since these had altogether disappeared and were no longer seen by the Persians at all, Dareios left those fortifications half finished, and turning back himself began to go towards the West, supposing that these were the whole body of the Scythians and that they were flying towards the West.

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With this opinion Dareios was very greatly pleased and made answer to him in these words: “Friend from Lesbos, when I have returned safe to my house, be sure that thou appear before me, in order that I may requite thee with good deeds for good counsel.”

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