Histories

These together brought every other year and still bring a gift of two choenixes[*](The choenix was a measure of about the capacity of a quart.) of unrefined gold, two hundred blocks of ebony, five Ethiopian boys, and twenty great elephants' tusks.

Gifts were also required of the Colchians and their neighbors as far as the +Bol'soj Kavkaz [46.833,42] (mountain range), Asia Caucasus mountains (which is as far as the Persian rule reaches, the country north of the +Bol'soj Kavkaz [46.833,42] (mountain range), Asia Caucasus paying no regard to the Persians); these were rendered every four years and are still rendered, namely, a hundred boys and as many maids.