Aeschylus Persae 355-356

Messenger: A Greek man came from the Athenian force and told your son Xerxes this
Aeschylus Persae 285
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Messenger: O name of Salamis most odious to my ears! Alas, how I groan as I
remember Athens!
Aeschylus Persae 233
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Atossa: Can it then really be that my son had the keen desire to make this city his prey?
Chorus: Yes, for thus [defeat of Athens] all Hellas would become subject to the king.
Herodotus Histories 7.139

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As it is however, if a man should say that the Athenians proved to be the saviours of
Hellas, he would not fail to hit the truth. For to whichever side these turned, to that the
balance was likely to incline.
Herodotus 7.134
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Sperthias the son of Aneristos and Bulis the son of Nicolaos, Spartans of noble birth
and in wealth attaining to the first rank, voluntarily submitted to pay the penalty to
Xerxes for the heralds of Dareios which had perished at Sparta.
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If he [Leonidas] remained, a great fame of him would be left behind, and the prosperity
of Sparta would not be blotted out

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[The Spartans] the fortifications of the Isthmus were now complete and they therefore
felt that Athenian help was no longer necessary.
Herodotus 3.38

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For if one should propose to all men a choice, bidding them select the best customs
from all the customs that there are, each race of men, after examining them all, would
select those of his own people; thus all think that their own customs are by far the best:
and so it is not likely that any but a madman would make a jest of such things
Dareios in the course of his reign summoned those of the Hellenes who were present in
his land, and asked them for what price they would consent to eat up their fathers
when they died; and they answered that for no price would they do so. After this
Dareios summoned those Indians who are called Callatians, who eat their parents, and
asked them in presence of the Hellenes, who understood what they said by help of an
interpreter, for what payment they would consent to consume with fire the bodies of
their fathers when they died; and they cried out aloud and bade him keep silence from
such words. Thus then these things are established by usage, and I think that Pindar
spoke rightly in his verse, when he said that "of all things law is king."
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[Xerxes] he asked the Magians what the appearance meant to portend. These declared
that the god was foreshowing to the Hellenes a leaving of their cities, saying that the
Sun was the foreshower of events for the Hellenes, but the Moon for the Persians.
Having been thus informed, Xerxes proceeded on the march with very great joy.
Herodotus 3.80
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[Otanes] How can monarchy be a fit thing when the ruler can do what he wants with
impunity?
Herodotus: 8.36
Xerxes did not understand this Greek [Mneslippus] was tricking him
Herodotus 1.137
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I also admire the custom that forbids even the king himself for putting a man to death
for a single offense
Herodotus 1.134

Considering themselves [The Persians] in every way superior to the rest of the world
Aeschylus Persae 606
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Atossa: the terror of my disaster which is driving me out of my mind
Hippocrates Airs, Waters, Places 12

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The country [of Asia] is milder and the dispositions of the inhabitants also are more
gentle and affectionate
Herodotus 7.102

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[Demeratus:] with Hellas poverty is ever an inbred growth, while valour is one that has
been brought in, being acquired by intelligence and the force of law; and of it Hellas
makes use ever to avert from herself not only poverty but also servitude to a master.
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[Croesus to Cyrus] Order them to wear tunics under their cloaks and knee-boots on
their feet and to teach their sons lyre-playing and song and dance and shop-keeping.
And quickly, O king, you shall see them become women instead of men
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Darius: [Xerxes] thought he could constrain with fetters, like a slave, the sacred flowing
Hellespont, the divine stream of the Bosphoros
Herodotus 7.10e

[Artabanus to Xerxes] Thou seest how God strikes with thunderbolts the creatures
which stand above the rest and suffers them not to make a proud show; while those
which are small do not provoke him to jealousy
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[Xerxes to Artabanus] Everything I spoke of I shall accomplish without help from you
Aeschylus Persae 1008-1013
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Xerxes: We have been stricken by misfortune such as will endure for ages.
Chorus: We have been stricken; it is abundantly clear.
Xerxes: By strange woe, strange woe!
Chorus: It was with bad luck that we encountered Ionia's mariners. Unfortunate in war,
indeed, is Persia's race.
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[Concerning Cambyses]There had been a prophecy from the oracle at Buto that he
would die at Ecbatana; and he had supposed that to mean Median Ecbatana, his capital
city where he would die of old age. But as it turned out it meant Ecbatana in Syria.
Herodotus 1.13


[It is prophesied that] The Heraclids would have their revenge on Gyges in the fifth
generation
Herodotus 1.32

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[Solon to Croesus] But mark this: until he is dead keep the word happy in reserve. Till
then he is not happy but only lucky.