Ἀρταξέρξης

Sections

1.1 – 2.1 2.2 – 3.1 3.2 – 3.5 4.1 – 4.3 4.4 – 5.2 5.3 – 6.2 6.3 – 6.5 6.6 – 7.2 7.3 – 8.1 8.2 – 8.4 8.5 – 9.1 9.2 – 9.4 10.1 – 10.3 11.1 – 11.3 11.4 – 11.6 12.1 – 12.2 12.3 – 13.2 13.3 – 13.4 14.1 – 14.2 14.3 – 14.4 14.5 – 15.2 15.3 – 15.5 16.1 – 16.3 16.4 – 17.3 17.4 – 17.6 18.1 – 18.3 18.4 – 19.1 19.2 – 19.4 19.5 – 20.1 20.2 – 20.4 21.1 – 21.4 21.5 – 22.2 22.3 – 22.5 22.6 – 23.2 23.3 – 23.5 24.1 – 24.2 24.3 – 24.5 24.6 – 25.2 25.3 – 26.1 26.2 – 26.3 26.4 – 27.1 27.2 – 27.3 27.4 – 27.5 28.1 – 28.2 28.3 – 29.2 29.3 – 29.5 29.6 – 30.1 30.2 – 30.4 30.5 – 30.5

İngilizce Yunanca

26.2 For he sought to gain Atossa’s favour by promising that she should be his wife and share the throne with him after the death of his father. And there was a report that even while his father was alive Ochus had secret relations with Atossa. But Artaxerxes was ignorant of this; and wishing to shatter at once the hopes of Ochus, that he might not venture upon the same course as Cyrus and so involve the kingdom anew in wars and contests, he proclaimed Dareius, then fifty years of age, his successor to the throne, and gave him permission to wear the upright kitanis, as the tiara was called.

26.3 Now, there was a custom among the Persians that the one appointed to the royal succession should ask a boon, and that the one who appointed him should give whatever was asked, if it was within his power. Accordingly, Dareius asked for Aspasia, who had been the special favourite of Cyrus, and was then a concubine of the king. She was a native of Phocaea, in Ionia, born of free parents, and fittingly educated.