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Moreover, within a little while it happened that Atossa, the
daughter of Cyrus, who was married to Darius, had a boil form upon
her breast, which, after it burst, began to spread and increase.
Now so long as the sore was of no great size, she hid it through shame
and made no mention of it to any one; but when it became worse, she
sent at last for Democedes, and showed it to him. Democedes said
that he would make her well, but she must first promise him with an
oath that if he cured her she would grant him whatever request he might
prefer; assuring her at the same time that it should be nothing which
she could blush to hear.
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