Histories

When he finally did fall, he still had life in him, and the Persian soldiers on the ships took great pains to keep him alive for his valor, tending his wounds with ointments and wrapping him in bandages of linen cloth[*](Commonly used for mummy-wrappings in Egypt [30,27] (nation), Africa Egypt; cp. Hdt. 2.86.).

Upon returning to their own station, they showed him to the whole host, and made much of him and treated him with kindness. The rest of those whom they took in that ship, however, they used as slaves.