Histories

Herodotus

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

So Darius son of Hystaspes was made king,[*](521 B.C.) and the whole of Asia (continent)Asia, which Cyrus first and Cambyses after him had conquered, was subject to him, except the Arabians; these did not yield as of slaves to the Persians, but were united to them by friendship, having given Cambyses passage into Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt, which the Persians could not enter without the consent of the Arabians.