Note 442 — Chapter XCIV · MILITARY OPERATIONS AND CONQUESTS OF ALEXANDER, AFTER HIS WINTER-QUARTERS IN PERSIS, DOWN TO HIS DEATH AT BABYLON.
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“Rarus apud Medos regum cruor; unaque cuncto Pœna manet generi; quamvis crudelibus æque Paretur dominis.” (Claudian. in Eutrop. ii. p. 478.)
Court conspiracies and assassinations of the prince, however were not unknown either among the Achæmenidæ or the Arsakidæ.