subido con ellos; y cuando hubo entrado en la presencia del rey, los hijos de Pisístrato hablaron de él en términos magníficos, y él repetía algunos de los oráculos; y si había en ellos algo que presagiara desastre para los bárbaros, de ello no decía nada; sino que, escogiendo de entre ellos las cosas más afortunadas, contaba cómo estaba destinado que el Helesponto fuera yugado con un puente por un persa, y exponía la manera de la marcha. Así pues, él urgía a Jerjes con oráculos, mientras los hijos de Pisístrato y los Aleuadas lo presionaban con
- So when Xerxes had been persuaded to make an expedition against Hellas, then in the next year after the death of Darius he made a march first against those who had revolted. Having subdued these and having reduced all Egypt to slavery much greater than it had suffered in the reign of Darius, he entrusted the government of it to Achaimenes his own brother, a son of Darius. Now this Achaimenes being a governor of Egypt was slain afterwards by Inaros the son of Psammetichos, a Libyan. 8. Xerxes then after the conquest of Egypt, being about to take in hand the expedition against Athens, summoned a chosen assembly of the best men among the Persians, that he might both learn their opinions and himself in the presence of all declare that which he intended to do; and when they were assembled, Xerxes spoke to them as follows: (a) “Persians, I shall not be the first to establish this custom in your nation, but having received it from others I shall follow it: for as I am informed by those who are older than myself, we never yet have kept quiet since we received this supremacy in succession to the Medes, when Cyrus overthrew Astyages; but God thus leads us, and for ourselves tends to good that we are busied about many things. Now about the nations which Cyrus and Cambyses and my father Darius subdued and added to their possessions there is no need for me to speak, since ye know well: and as