Histories

It is from no wisdom of my own that I thus conjecture; it is because I know what disaster once almost overtook us, when your father, making a highway over the Karadeniz Bogazi (strait), Istanbul, Marmara, Turkey, AsiaThracian Bosporus and bridging the river Ister, crossed over to attack the Scythians. At that time the Scythians used every means of entreating the Ionians, who had been charged to guard the bridges of the Ister, to destroy the way of passage.[*](Cp. Hdt. 4.136 ff.)

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.