Histories

Herodotus

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

This done, they sailed away to Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas, carrying with them the cables of the bridges to be dedicated in their temples, and all sorts of things in addition. This, then, is all that was done in this year.

This Artayctes who was crucified was the grandson of that Artembares [*](There is an Artembares in Hdt. 1.114; but he is a Mede, and so can hardly be meant here.) who instructed the Persians in a design which they took from him and laid before Cyrus; this was its purport: