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| #### #### By these means the Persians escaped from Scythia, while the Scyths sought for them in vain, again missing their track. And hence the Scythians are accustomed to say of the Ionians, by way of reproach, that, if they be looked upon as freemen, they are the basest and most dastardly of all mankind - but if they be considered as under servitude, they are the faithfullest of slaves, and the most fondly at. to their lords. ####  |