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Now Aryandes had been made governor of Egypt by Cambyses. He it
was who in after times was punished with death by Darius for seeking to
rival him. Aware, by report and also by his own eyesight, that
Darius wished to leave a memorial of himself, such as no king had ever
left before, Aryandes resolved to follow his example, and did so,
till he got his reward. Darius had refined gold to the last perfection
of purity in order to have coins struck of it: Aryandes, in his
Egyptian government, did the very same with silver, so that to this
day there is no such pure silver anywhere as the Aryandic. Darius,
when this came to his ears, brought another charge, a charge of
rebellion, against Aryandes, and put him to death.
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