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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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iscarded, would 120 Darius the Great. (B.C.520. The wonderful ants. Their prodigious size. fill their bags with the utmost possible dispatch,and then mount their camels and ride away.The ants, in the mean time, would take thealarm, and begin to assemble to attack them;but as their instinct prompted them to waituntil considerable numbers were collected be-fore they commenced their attack, the Indianshad time to fill their bags and begin their flightbefore their enemies were ready. Then com-menced the chase, the camels running at theirfull speed, and the swarms of ants following,and gradually drawing nearer and nearer. Atlength, when nearly overtaken, the Indianswould abandon the camels that they were lead-ing, and fly on, more swiftly, upon those whichthey rode. While the ants were busy in devour-ing the victims thus given up to them, the au-thors of all the mischief would make good theirescape, and thus carry off their gold to a placeof safety. These famous ants were bigger thanfoxes!
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B.C.519.) Greece Reconnoitered. 123 The reconnoitering party. The physician Democedes. Chapter VI. The Reconnoitering of Greece. FI1HE great event in the history of Darius—-- the one, in fact, on account of which it was,mainly, that his name and his career have beenso widely celebrated among mankind, was anattempt which he made, on a very magnificentscale, for the invasion and conquest of Greece.Before commencing active operations in thisgrand undertaking, he sent a reconnoiteringparty to examine and explore the ground. Thisreconnoitering party met with a variety of ex-traordinary adventures in the course of its prog-ress, and the history of it will accordingly formthe subject of this chapter. The guide to this celebrated reconnoiteringparty was a certain Greek physician namedDemocedes. Though Democedes was called aGreek, he was, really, an Italian by birth. Hisnative town was Crotona, which may be foundexactly at the ball of the foot on the map ofItaly. It was by a very singular se

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