Bagaeus delivering his messages to the Persian guards. Bagaeus an Achaemenid nobleman, ordered by Darius I to kill Oroetus, or Oroetes, he used the written orders from Darius in order to assure himself of the obedience of the bodyguards of Oreates. From Cassell's Universal History, published 1888.

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