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King Darius was full of wonder both at what they who had watched the
woman told him, and at what he had himself seen. So he commanded that
she should be brought before him. And the woman came; and with her
appeared her brothers, who had been watching everything a little way
off. Then Darius asked them of what nation the woman was; and the
young men replied that they were Paeonians, and she was their sister.
Darius rejoined by asking, "Who the Paeonians were, and in what
part of the world they lived? and, further, what business had brought
the young men to Sardis?" Then the brothers told him they had come
to put themselves under his power, and Paeonia was a country upon the
river Strymon, and the Strymon was at no great distance from the
Hellespont. The Paeonians, they said, were colonists of the
Teucrians from Troy. When they had thus answered his questions,
Darius asked if all the women of their country worked so hard? Then
the brothers eagerly answered, Yes; for this was the very object with
which the whole thing had been done.
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