Histories

Thus Demaratus answered. Xerxes made a joke of the matter and showed no anger, but sent him away kindly. After he had conversed with Demaratus, and appointed Mascames son of Megadostes governor of this Doriscus, deposing the governor Darius had appointed, Xerxes marched his army through Thrace (region (general)), EuropeThrace towards Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas.

Xerxes left behind this Mascames, who so conducted himself that to him alone Xerxes always sent gifts, as being the most valiant of all the governors that he or Darius appointed; he sent these gifts every year, and so did Artaxerxes son of Xerxes to Mascames' descendants. Before this march, governors had been appointed everywhere in Thrace (region (general)), EuropeThrace and on the Canakkale Bogazi (strait), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Hellespont.

All of these in Thrace (region (general)), EuropeThrace and the Canakkale Bogazi (strait), Canakkale, Marmara, Turkey, Asia Hellespont, except the governor of Doriscus, were after this expedition captured by the Greeks; but no one could ever drive out Mascames in Doriscus, though many tried. For this reason gifts are sent by the successive kings of Iran [53,32] (nation), AsiaPersia.