Histories

Herodotus

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

If Histiaeus the tyrant of Miletus [27.3,37.5] (Perseus) Miletus had consented to the opinion of the other tyrants instead of opposing it, the power of Iran [53,32] (nation), AsiaPersia would have perished. Yet it is dreadful even in the telling, that one man should hold in his hand all the king's fortunes.