Note 006
From Chapter 62 of the Decline & Fall


A Persian saying, that Cyrus was the father and Darius the master, of his subjects, was applied to Vataces and his son. But Pachymer (l. i. c. 23) has mistaken the mild Darius for the cruel Cambyses, despot or tyrant of his people. By the institution of taxes, Darius had incurred the less odious, but more contemptible, name of Ancient Greek merchant or broker (Herodotus, iii. 89.)

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