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Masistes, who knew nothing of what had happened, but was fearful that
some calamity had befallen him, ran hastily to his house. There,
finding his wife so savagely used, he forthwith took counsel with his
sons, and, accompanied by them and certain others also, set forth on
his way to Bactria, intending to stir up revolt in that province, and
hoping to do great hurt to Xerxes: all which, I believe, he would
have accomplished, if he had once reached the Bactrian and Sacan
people; for he was greatly beloved by them both, and was moreover
satrap of Bactria. But Xerxes, hearing of his designs, sent an
armed force upon his track, and slew him while he was still upon the
road, with his sons and his whole army. Such is the tale of King
Xerxes' love and of the death of his brother Masistes.
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