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Here then, on the banks of the Tearus, Darius stopped and pitched
his camp. The river charmed him so, that he caused a pillar to be
erected in this place also, with an inscription to the following
effect: "The fountains of the Tearus afford the best and most
beautiful water of all rivers: they were visited, on his march into
Scythia, by the best and most beautiful of men, Darius, son of
Hystaspes, king of the Persians, and of the whole continent."
Such was the inscription which he set up at this place.
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