Histories

Herodotus

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

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: