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impelled to this conduct towards the Simians, in re­
sentment of a former injury. When Amphicrates
reigned at Samos, he had carried on a war against the
jEginette, by which they materially suffered; this,
however, they severely retaliated.

LX. I have been thus particular in my account of
the Samians, because this people produced the great­
est monuments of art which are to be seen in Greece.
They have a mountain which is one hundred and fifty
orgyite in height; they have made a passage entirely
through this, the length of which is seven stadia, it is
moreover eight feet high, and as many wide. By the
side of this there is also an artificial canal, which in
like manner goes quite through the mountain, and
though only three feet in breadth, is twenty cubits
deep. This, by the means of pipes, conveys to the
city the waters of a copious spring. This is their first
work, and constructed by Eupalinus, the son of Nau-
strophus, an inhabitant of Megara. Their second is
a mole, which projects from the harbour into the sea,
and is two stadia or more in length, and about twenty
orgyim in height. Their last performance was a tem­
ple, which exceeds in grandeur all that I have seen.
This structure was first commenced by a native of the
country, whose name was Rhoecus, son of Phileus.

LXI. Whilst Cambysos, the son of Cyrus, passed
his time in Egypt, committing various excesses, two
magi, who were brothers, and one of whom Camby-
ses had left in Persia as the manager of his domestic
concerns, excited a revolt against him. The death of
Smerdis, which had been studiously kept secret, and
was known to very few of the Persians, who in gene­
ral believed that he was alive, was a circumstance to
which the last mentioned of these magi had been
privy, and of which he determined to avail himself.
His brother, who, as we have related, joined with him
in this business, not only resembled in person, but
bore the very name of the young prince, the son of
Cyrus, who had been put to death by the order of
his brother Cambyses. This man, Patizithes, the
other magus, publicly introduced and placed upon the
royal throne, having previously instructed him in the