Histories

Herodotus

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

After this, being pleased with his bridge of boats, Darius made a gift of ten of everything[*](Apparently a proverbial expression for great abundance; cp. a similar phrase in Hdt. 9.81.) to Mandrocles the Samian, the architect of it; Mandrocles took the first-fruits of these and had a picture made with them, showing the whole bridge of the Karadeniz Bogazi (strait), Istanbul, Marmara, Turkey, AsiaBosporus, and Darius sitting aloft on his throne and his army crossing; he set this up in the temple of Hera, with this inscription:

  1. “After bridging the Karadeniz Bogazi (strait), Istanbul, Marmara, Turkey, AsiaBosporus that teems with fish,
  2. Mandrocles dedicated a memorial of the floating bridge to Hera,
  3. Having won a crown for himself, and fame for the Samians,
  4. Doing the will of King Darius.”
This memorialized the builder of the bridge.