Herodotus
Herodotus
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The secluded life of an Eastern monarch would give such an imposture addi- tional chances of success. The Magian usurper reigned for eight months under the name of Smerdis, giving great satisfaction to most of his subjects, for under him "the empire was peace. " He remitted the heaviest taxes, and enforced no mill- 73 THE HISTORY OF HERODOTUS. Tary conscription. At last his imposture came to light. Otanes, a Persian nobleman, whose daughter was one of his wives, was informed by her that her hus...band had no ears. Now the Magian was known to have lost his for some offence in the time of Cyrus. * The result of this revelation was, that Otanes headed the famous conspiracy of the seven nobles, of whom Darius, the son of Hysfcaspes, sprung from a collateral branch of the royal family, and probably the next legal heir, was one. While they were concocting their plan of attack, a tragical event happened which made immediate action necessary. The Magians, knowing how cruelly Prex- aspes had been treated by Cambyses, t thought it their interest to conciliate ' him, and prevailed upon him to mount on a tower of the palace-wall, and make a speech to the people below, who had grown suspicious, to the effect that their present king was the true Smer- .
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
The secluded life of an Eastern monarch would give such an imposture addi- tional chances of success. The Magian usurper reigned for eight months under the name of Smerdis, giving great satisfaction to most of his subjects, for under him "the empire was peace. " He remitted the heaviest taxes, and enforced no mill- 73 THE HISTORY OF HERODOTUS. Tary conscription. At last his imposture came to light. Otanes, a Persian nobleman, whose daughter was one of his wives, was informed by her that her hus...band had no ears. Now the Magian was known to have lost his for some offence in the time of Cyrus. * The result of this revelation was, that Otanes headed the famous conspiracy of the seven nobles, of whom Darius, the son of Hysfcaspes, sprung from a collateral branch of the royal family, and probably the next legal heir, was one. While they were concocting their plan of attack, a tragical event happened which made immediate action necessary. The Magians, knowing how cruelly Prex- aspes had been treated by Cambyses, t thought it their interest to conciliate ' him, and prevailed upon him to mount on a tower of the palace-wall, and make a speech to the people below, who had grown suspicious, to the effect that their present king was the true Smer- .
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