. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . e ordered thatthe culprit should be beheaded. Megabyzos with difficultyescaped this punishment through the entreaties of Amestrisand of his wife Amytis; but he was deprived of his fiefs, andsent to Kyrta, on the shores of the Persian Gulf. Afterfive years this exile became unbearable ; he therefore spreadthe report that he was attacked by leprosy, and he returnedhome without any one venturing to hinder him, from fearof defiling themselves by contact with his and Amytis brought about his reconciliation withhis sovereign
. History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia and Assyria . e ordered thatthe culprit should be beheaded. Megabyzos with difficultyescaped this punishment through the entreaties of Amestrisand of his wife Amytis; but he was deprived of his fiefs, andsent to Kyrta, on the shores of the Persian Gulf. Afterfive years this exile became unbearable ; he therefore spreadthe report that he was attacked by leprosy, and he returnedhome without any one venturing to hinder him, from fearof defiling themselves by contact with his and Amytis brought about his reconciliation withhis sovereign; and thenceforward he regulated his conductso successfully that the past was completely forgotten, and VOL. IX. s 258 THE LAST DAYS OP THE OLD EASTERN WORLD when he died, at the age of seventy-six years, Artaxerxesdeeply regretted his loss.^ Peace having been signed with Athens, and the revoltof Megabyzos being at an end, Artaxerxes was free toenjoy himself without further care for the futuie, andto pass his time between his various capitals and VIEW OF THE ACHjEMENIAN RUINS OF ISTAKHK. His choice lay between Susa and Persepolis, betweenEcbatana and Babylon, according as the heat of thesummer or the cold of the winter induced him to passfrom the plains to the mountains, or from the latter to 1 These events are known to us only through Ctesias. Their date isuncertain, but there is no doubt that they occurred after Cimons campaignin Cyprus and the conclusion of the peace of Callias. - Drawn by Boudier, from the engraving of Flandin and Coste. THE ROYAL PALACES 259 the plains. During his visits to Babylon he occupied oneof the old Chaldsean palaces, but at Ecbatana he possessedmerely the ancient residence of the Median kings, andthe seraglio built or restored by Xerxes in the fashionof the times : at Susa and in Persia proper, the royalbuildings were entirely the work of the Achsemenids,mostly that of Darius and Xerxes. The memory of Cyrusand of the kings to whom primit
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