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Both these officers were, we may presume, Greeks in
the service of the king of Persia ; and the form of the
letters on the inscription suit well with a period
not long antecedent to Alexander the Great. Most re-
markably,
there is in the British Museum a Persian
silver daric, with the same Greek name, Pythagoras ;
the only specimen of Persian money yet met with,
bearing any inscription.
I have had this coin engraved here, inasmuch as
it affords a good representation of the usual type of
the daric that is of those " Archers " of which we
hear so much in Greek History, subsequently to the
Retreat of the Ten Thousand, and because it is likely
that this individual coin, was struck to pay the Greek
mercenaries whom Pythagoras commanded.
Coin of Pythagoras.
In his delightful residence at Susa Darius apparently
remained for several years, nor would perhaps have
undertaken any further expedition against the " Isles
of the West" had h? not been roused from his
repose by
events to which we shall now call atten-
tion.
The great Ionian revolt, which ultimately led to the