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Title: The histories of Herodotus
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Herodotus Cary, Henry, 1804-1870, tr. trl
Subjects: History, Ancient
Publisher: New York : D. Appleton and Co.
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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of Cambyses. But Cambyses, as the Egyptians say, immediately becamemad in consequence of this atrocity, though indeed he was notof sound mind before. His first crime he committed againsthis brother Smerdis, who was born of the same father andmother; him he sent back from Egypt to Persia throughenvy, because he alone of all the Persians had drawn the bow,which the Ichthyophagi brought from the Ethiopian, withintwo fingers breadth: of the other Persians no one was ableto do this. After the departure of Smerdis for Persia, Cam-byses saw the following vision in his sleep: he imagined thata messenger arrived from Persia and informed him that Smer-dis was seated on the royal throne, and touched the heavenswith his head. Upon this, fearing for himself, lest his brothershould kill him, and reign, he sent Prexaspes, who was aman the most faithful to him of the Persians, to Persia, withorders to kill Smerdis. And he, having gone up to Susa,killed Smerdis; some say, when he had taken him out to
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2 a 1 O 3 m C 1—( CQ eu < ^ J= 5 U) .1^ n _o ^ bO ,c 2: o 1—( C/3 _c rt U B o 2 K fa 30-32) MADNESS OF CAMBYSES 165 hunt; but others, that he led him to the Red Sea and drownedhim. This, they say, was the first of the crimes of Cambyses:the second he committed against his sister, who had accom-panied him into Egypt, and whom he married, and who washis sister by both parents. He married her in the followingway: for before, the Persians were on no account accustomedto intermarry with their sisters. Cambyses became enamouredof one of his sisters, and then being desirous of making herhis wife, because he purposed doing what was not customary,he summoned the royal judges, and asked them if there wasany law permitting one who wished to marry his sister. Theroyal judges are men chosen from among Persians, who con-tinue in ofifice until they die, or are convicted of some injus-tice. They determine causes between the Persians, and arethe interpreters of the ancient constitutions, and al

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