« Hdt. 3.128 | Hdt. 3.129 | Hdt. 3.130 | About This Work »
129When the wealth of Oroites had come or had been carried[114] up to Susa, it happened not long after, that king Dareios while engaged in hunting wild beasts twisted his foot in leaping off his horse, and it was twisted, as it seems, rather violently, for the ball of his ankle-joint was put out of the socket. Now he had been accustomed to keep about him those of the Egyptians who were accounted the first in the art of medicine, and he made use of their assistance then: but these by wrenching and forcing the foot made the evil continually greater. For seven days then and seven nights Dareios was sleepless owing to the pain which he suffered; and at last on the eighth day, when he was in a wretched state, some one who had heard talk before while yet at Sardis of the skill of Demokedes of Croton, reported this to Dareios; and he bade them bring him forthwith into his presence. So having found him somewhere unnoticed among the slaves of Oroites, they brought him forth into the midst dragging fetters after him and clothed in rags.
« Hdt. 3.128 | Hdt. 3.129 | Hdt. 3.130 | About This Work »
Notes
[114] {apikomenon kai anakomisthenton}: the first perhaps referring to the slaves and the other to the rest of the property.