Histories

Herodotus

Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).

Having done these things in Iran [53,32] (nation), AsiaPersia, he divided his dominions into twenty provinces, which they call satrapies;[*](On the following list see the introduction to this book.) and having divided his dominions and appointed governors, he instructed each people to pay him tribute, consolidating neighboring peoples and distributing outlying peoples among different provinces, passing over those adjoining.