Note 398 — Chapter XXXIII · GROWTH OF THE PERSIAN EMPIRE.
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Herodot. iii, 68-69.—“Auribus decisis vivere jubet,” says Tacitus, about a case under the Parthian government (Annal. xii, 14),—nor have the Turkish authorities given up the infliction of it at the present moment, or at least down to a very recent period.