Darius

Long afterwards, Darius the Persian would have set up his statue before these;

therefore, it was not just that Darius should set his statue before the statues of Sesostris, whose achievements he had not equalled.

It was he who began building the canal into the Red Sea, which was finished by Darius the Persian.

And still more the dwelling of Menelaus, and that of a man returned from a campaign—does he not describe it as something Persian and Median, almost not far short of the palace of Semiramis, or of Darius and Xerxes?

And Alexander said, "You, it seems, do not think even the Great King to be a king?

"For neither is the boy who wins, when they play—as they themselves say—at being kings, truly a king.

In the fifth book of Quintus Curtius, there is an expression of King Darius to this effect, that he had rather die by another’s guilty hand than by his own.

Xenophon maintains that in certain cases they may be made prisoners, as Alexander made those, who were sent from Thebes and Lacedaemon to Darius, and the Romans those, whom Philip sent to Hannibal, and Latius those of the Volscians.

And no less impious is the supposed homage, that is paid to God with the blood of innocent human victims, and Darius king of the Persians, and Gelo king of Syracuse, are commended for abstaining from such practices.

And it was but a short time before the Median war, and the death of Darius, who was king of the Persians after Cambyses, that triremes were possessed in any number by the tyrants of Sicily and the Corcyraeans.

and in the case of the Ionians, when their power had advanced to a high pitch, Cyrus and the Persian kingdom, having subdued Croesus and all within the Halys to the sea, marched against them, and reduced to bondage their cities on the mainland, as Darius afterwards did even the islands, conquering them by means of the fleet of the Phoenicians.

On the site on which the town now stands a settlement was before attempted by Aristagoras the Milesian, when flying from king Darius;

This man disdained Darius, who invited him to come to Persia.

while Apollodorus says he was born about the fortieth Olympiad and lasted down to the times of Darius and Cyrus.

They say, for instance, that Idanthura, the king of the Scythians, as Pherecydes of Syros records, when Darius had crossed the Ister and was threatening war, sent him, instead of a letter, a symbol — a mouse, a frog, a bird, an arrow, a plough.

After Darius and the Indians, Alexander is poor.

already nations even free from Darius receive the yoke:

Darius and Parysatis had two sons born to them, of whom the elder was Artaxerxes and the younger Cyrus.

When Darius had died and Artaxerxes had become established as king, Tissaphernes falsely accused Cyrus to his brother of plotting against him.

furthermore, they refused to go on unless they were given money, as were the men who made the journey with Cyrus before, when he went to visit his father;

But when Darius was come down to the coast with all his forces, and Alexander was shut up in Cilicia in extreme want, as you yourself said, and was, according to your statement, on the point of being trampled under the hoofs of the Persian horse, and when there was not room enough in the city to contain your odious demonstrations and the letters that you carried around, dangling them from your fin …

I would not pass over the deed of Alexander, who, having taken captive the daughters of Darius, witnessed to be of wondrous beauty, did not even deign to look upon them, judging it shameful that he who had conquered men should be conquered by women.

Nor is it in this alone that I am drawn on, but I must with great speed overtake the land of the Persians and put to flight that Sapor, who has become the descendant of Darius, until he becomes tributary and subject to me;

if wise, not even then was he wretched, when he was driven onto the cross by Oroetes, the satrap of Darius.

Darius, in flight, when he had drunk water turbid and defiled with corpses, said that he had never drunk more pleasantly.

And if a Cambyses or a Darius or any other madman attempted such things, and if one slew the Egyptian Apis, I laugh that he slew their god, but am vexed that he did wrong for gain.

The Plataeans, men of Athens, alone among the Greeks came to your aid at Marathon when Datis, the general of King Dareius, on his return from Eretria after subjugating Euboea, landed on our coast with a large force and proceeded to ravage the country.

Later than Eurystheus, the troops dispatched by Dareius to ravage Hellas landed at Marathon, fell upon more misfortunes and greater disasters than they had hoped to inflict upon our city, and fled in rout from all Hellas.

They first displayed their valor when Darius sent his troops;

for when the Persians landed in Attica the Athenians did not wait for their allies, but, making the common war their private cause, they marched out with their own forces alone to meet an enemy who looked with contempt upon the whole of Hellas—a mere handful against thousands upon thousands —as if they were about to risk the lives of others, not their own;

I believe, indeed, by the Dog, that rather than all Darius’s gold I would choose to gain a dear comrade—far sooner than I would Darius himself, so fond I am of my comrades.

Well then, when an orator or a king is able to rival the greatness of Lycurgus or Solon or Darius and attain immortality as a writer in the state, does he not while living think himself equal to the gods, and has not posterity the same opinion of him, when they see his writings?

And yet most have exercised anger as though it were a royal emblem, like Darius, who, first after the empire was taken from the Magian, held the Persians and a great part of the East.

For in the reign of Cyrus and Darius was Zechariah, at which time Thales, prince of natural philosophers, gave Croesus, when he questioned him, no certain answer about divinity, being troubled, no doubt, by the voices of the prophets.

So too Daniel, in all else supported by Darius, was in office so long as he was free from peril to discipline.

the tyrant's wise men are spared, God is glorified, Daniel is honoured—and one who afterward, too, was to bring God no smaller grace, in the first year of king Darius, when, from reconsidering the times foretold by Jeremiah, "he set his face to God in fastings and sackcloth and ashes.

For Daniel too — the suppliant of none but God, and therefore accused and demanded by the Chaldeans — the shut-in and accustomed ferocity of the lions would surely at once have devoured, had Darius's worthy presumption about God deserved to be disappointed.

In consequence, Hieramenes and his wife said to Darius that it would be shameful if he were to overlook such wanton violence on the part of Cyrus;

It was in this year that Cyrus put to death Autoboesaces and Mitraeus, who were sons of Darius’ sister—the daughter of Darius’ father Xerxes—because upon meeting him they did not thrust their hands through the corê, an honour they show the King alone.