Note 415 — Chapter XXXIII · GROWTH OF THE PERSIAN EMPIRE.
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Herodot. iii, 155. δεινόν τι ποιεύμενος, Ἀσσυρίους Πέρσῃσι καταγελᾷν. Compare the speech of Mardonius, vii, 9.
The horror of Darius, at the first sight of Zopyrus in this condition, is strongly dramatized by Herodotus.