Identifier: historyofdariusg00abbo (find matches)
Title: History of Darius the Great
Year: 1850 (1850s)
Authors: Abbott, Jacob, 1803-1879
Subjects: Darius I, King of Persia, 548-485 B.C
Publisher: New York, Harper & brothers
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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came to Pheedymasturn to visit the king, she did as her father hadrequested. She passed her hand very cautious-ly beneath the kings turban, and found that hisears had been cut off close to his head. Earlyin the morning she communicated the knowl-edge of the fact to her father. Otanes immediately made the case knownto two of his friends, Persian nobles, who had,with him, suspected the imposture, and hadconsulted together before in respect to the meansof detecting it. The question was, what wasnow to be done. After some deliberation, it wasagreed that each of them should communicatethe discovery which they had made to one otherperson, such as each should select from amongthe circle of his friends as the one on whose res-olution, prudence, and fidelity he could most im-plicitly rely. This was done, and the numberadmitted to the secret was thus increased tosix. At this juncture it happened that Darius,the son of Hystaspes, the young man who hasalready been mentioned as the subject of Cy-
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B.C. 520.) Smerdis the Magian. 71 Arrival of Darius. Secret consultations. russ dream, came to Susa. Darius was a manof great prominence and popularity. His father,Hystaspes, was at that time the governor of theprovince of Persia, and Darius had been re-siding with him in that country. As soon asthe six conspirators heard of his arrival, theyadmitted him to their councils, and thus theirnumber was increased to seven. They immediately began to hold secret con-sultations for the purpose of determining howit was best to proceed, first binding themselvesby the most solemn oaths never to betray oneanother, however their undertaking might end.Darius told them that he had himself discoveredthe imposture and usurpation of Smerdis, andthat he had come from Persia for the purposeof slaying him; and that now, since it appearedthat the secret was known to so many, he wasof opinion that they ought to act at once withthe utmost decision. He thought there wouldbe great danger in delay. Otanes, on th

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