Persians

Aeschylus

Aeschylus, Volume 1. Smyth, Herbert Weir, translator. London; New York: William Heinemann; G.P. Putnam's Sons, 1922.

  1. Behind them follows a throng of luxurious Lydians and those[*](A covert reference to the Ionians, kinsmen of the Athenians, who served under compulsion in the expedition against Greece.)who hold in subjection all the people of the mainland, whom Metrogathes and brave Arcteus, their regal commanders,