Bactra

and likewise the wall at Susa and at Bactra;

for that king too passed the winter in Babylon and Susa, and sometimes in Bactra—the most temperate regions of Asia—and the summer in Ecbatana of Media, where the air is always coldest, and the summer is like the winter about Babylon.

and if you are willing to consort with them, leaving all else aside — parents, native lands, the shrines of the gods, the tombs of your ancestors — and to follow them wherever they lead, or, should they settle and remain somewhere, to settle with them — whether at Babylon in the city of Ninus and Semiramis, or in Bactra, or Susa, or Palibothra, or some other famous and wealthy city — giving them m …

But it was of no use, for Xerxes learned what he intended and sent against him an army which killed him on his way, and his sons and his army.

Seeing what had been done to his wife, he immediately took counsel with his children and set out for Bactra with his own sons (and others too), intending to raise the province of Bactra in revolt and do the king the greatest of harm.