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After Democedes had cured Darius at Susa, he dwelt there in a large
house, and feasted daily at the king's table, nor did he lack
anything that his heart desired, excepting liberty to return to his
country. By interceding for them with Darius, he saved the lives of
the Egyptian physicians who had had the care of the king before he
came, when they were about to be impaled because they had been
surpassed by a Greek; and further, he succeeded in rescuing an Elean
soothsayer, who had followed the fortunes of Polycrates, and was
lying in utter neglect among his slaves. In short there was no one who
stood so high as Democedes in the favour of the king.
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