Heracl. Cum. fragm. 2; Diod. 17, 77.
479
Ctesias and Darius, in Athenaeus, p. 434.
480
Herod. 9, 110, 111; Esther ii. 18.
481
"Alcib. I." p. 121.
482
Heracl. Cum. fragm. 1, ed. Müller.
483
Xenoph. "Anab." 4, 4, 4.
484
Herod. 7, 54; Curtius, 5, 1, 20.
485
Herod. 7, 40, 41; 54, 55; Xenoph. "Cyri Inst." 8, 3, 5-10; Curtius, 3, 3, 21.
486
Herod. 7, 2, 97; 8, 89. Herodotus (7, 68) calls Arsamenes the son of Darius, and (7, 69) Arsames the son of Darius and Artystone. Artabazanes is called by Justin (2, 10) Artamenes.
487
Herod. 7, 224; Justin, 2, 10.
488
Diod. 17, 77; Athenaeus, p. 557.
489
Esther ii. 7-17; v. 2; viii. 4.
490
Deinon in Athenaeus, p. 557.
491
Heracl. Cum. fragm. 1, ed. Müller; Plut. "Artax." c. 27.
492
Plut. "Artax." 5.
493
Xenoph. "Cyri Inst." 7, 5, 58.
494
Xenoph. "Cyri Inst." 8, 1, 9; 8, 8, 20; Plut. "Artax." c. 19; Nicol. Damasc. fragm. 66, ed. Müller. On the physicians, above, p. 134, 313.
495
Herod. (1, 188) ascribes this custom to Cyrus, though the reference to Susa which he adds shows that it can only have come into existence after Susa became a residence.
496
Demosth. "Symmor." p. 185.
497
Athenaeus, p. 608.
498
Plut. "Artax." c. 13; Xenoph. "Cyri Inst." 8, 1, 40; "Anab." 1, 5, 8; Strabo, p. 734.
499
Xenoph. "Cyri Inst." 8, 8, 17.
500
Aeschyl. "Pers." 543; Xenophon, "Cyri Inst." 8, 8, 16.
501
Herod. 1, 133; Heracleides of Cyme (Fragm. 2, ed. Müller) contests the excess of the king at table as well as of the officers and generals. Cf. Xenoph. "Cyri Inst." 5, 2, 17; 8, 8, 10; Strabo, p. 733, 734.
502
Herod. 1, 135.
503