Histories

Deioces, then, united the Median nation by itself and ruled it. The Median tribes are these: the Busae, the Paretaceni, the Struchates, the Arizanti, the Budii, the Magi. Their tribes are this many.

Deioces had a son, Phraortes, who inherited the throne when Deioces died after a reign of fifty-three years.[*](Deioces died in 656 B.C.) Having inherited it, he was not content to rule the Medes alone: marching against the Persians, he attacked them first, and they were the first whom he made subject to the Medes.