[389] Xenoph. "Hellen." 3, 1, 6; "Anab." 2, 1, 3; 7, 8, 8; Thucyd. 1, 138; Plutarch, "Themist." 29 ff. That Themistocles was prince of Magnesia is the less doubtful because a silver stater of this city, 8,56 grammes in weight, with the square, and the name of Themistocles, is in existence: Mommsen. "Rom. Münzwesen," s. 65; Brandis, "Münzwesen in Vorderasien," s. 459, proves a second coin of Themistocles, 5.85 grammes in weight. [390] Droysen, "Hellenismus," 2, 44; Diod. 17, 52; Strabo, p. 798. [391] Nöldeke, "Tabari," s. 364 ff. [392] "Oecon." 4, 11, ff. [393] Xenoph. "Hellen." 4, 1, 33. [394] Plut. "Alcib." 24. [395] "Oecon." 4, 20-24; Aelian, "Hist. Anim." 1, 59. [396] Herod. 4, 39. [397] Herod. 4, 41. [398] Herod. 2, 158. [399] Herod. 4, 44. On the monuments of Darius, see Lepsius, "Chronol." s. 354, and "Monatsberichte B. A." 1866, s. 288; Oppert, "Mémoires prs. à l'Acad. des Inscrip." 1, 8 (1869), p. 646 ff. In opposition to the definite and detailed assertion of Herodotus, given in the text, the assertion in Strabo (p. 804) and Diodorus (1, 33) that Darius nearly finished the canal but did not quite finish it, cannot be accepted. Herodotus was in Egypt not much more than 30 years after the death of Darius (about 450 B.C.). Diodorus and Strabo accept the tradition of the times of the Ptolemies, which sought to claim for them the glory of completing the work, though they did no more than reopen the canal which had become silted up. To support this tradition Oppert has supplemented the decisive word of which no more than the syllable _ta_ remains, according to his transcription, in such a way that the meaning extracted is that Darius filled up his own canal. I do not see why this _ta_ should not be a part of _uçtaka_, _i.e._ to excavate, as well as of _vikata_, _i.e._ to make level. We cannot assume without further evidence that Darius set up a monument over the failure of his undertaking or its destruction. The Turanian version, which Oppert has since published ("Peuple des Mèdes," p. 214) does not help us to a decision, for it is only preserved as far as the place in question. [400] Xenoph. "Cyri Inst." 7, 5, 66. [401] Xenoph. "Cyri Inst." 8, 8, 20-22. [402] Herod. 3, 127; 5, 102; Xenoph. "Anab." 1, 2; Diod. 11, 34; Arrian, "Anab." 1, 29. [403] Herod. 2, 30. [404] Xenoph. "Oecon." 4, 5. [405] Xenoph. "Cyri Inst." 6, 2, 11. [406] "Oecon." 4, 5. [407] Herod. 7, 40, 41, 83; 8, 113; Heraclid. Cuman. fragm. 1, ed. Müller; Xenoph. "Cyri Inst." 7, 5, 68. [408] Curtius, 3, 3, 13; Xenoph. _loc. cit._