[199] Ctes. "Pers." 13. The names of the Seven in Ctesias have been discussed already, Vol. V. 329 _n._ [200] Herod. 3, 83, 84, and below, p. 221, 222. [201] Herod. 4, 83; 5, 25, 30. [202] Vol. V. 326 _n._ [203] Herod. 3, 72, 77. [204] Spiegel, "Keilinschriften," s. 7, "to say;" so Oppert ("Peuple des Mèdes," p. 110) after the Turanian version; on the other hand Mordtmann in "Z. D. M. G." 16, 37 gives, "to undertake." [205] Spiegel, "Keilinschriften," s. 81 ff.; Oppert, _loc. cit._ p. 121. [206] Herodotus gives Aspathines or Aspathenes; the inscription on the tomb of Darius mentions Açpachana as holding an honourable office near the person of the king. [207] Herod. 3, 67. [208] Herod. 3, 139, 126, 127. [209] See below, p. 229. [210] Plutarch, "Praec. gerend. reip." c. 27; Polyaen. "Strateg." 7, 12. [211] Herod. 7, 2; Behist. 4, 84; 5, 7, 9. N. R. c. [212] G. Rawlinson's view, which he gives in an excursus to his Herodotus (2, 548 ff.)--that the Magian was not a Mede, I accept, as I have observed, p. 191. Darius says in the inscription of Behistun that neither a Persian nor a "Mede" had risen against Gaumata, and moreover, that he had recovered the dominion which had been taken "from his tribe" and "race." But in no case was it a question of a religious conflict, but rather to avoid a new struggle between Media and Persia. On the passage 3, 14 in the inscription all that need be said has been given already (p. 216). [213] Herod. 3, 80-88. [214] Justin. 1, 10. [215] Ctes. "Pers." 14. [216] Sext. Empir. "Adv. Rhet." 33 in Stein, Herod. 3, 80. [217] Herod. 6, 43. [218] The evidence in support of this will be found in the Greek History. CHAPTER XIV. THE REBELLIONS IN THE PROVINCES.