Darius

Examples

• Xerxes passed into Europe, not as Darius did at the half-mile crossing of the Bosphorus, but at the Hellespont (the Dardanelles). H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He himself married a daughter of Darius, though already he possessed an Asiatic wife in Roxana, the daughter of the king of Samarkand. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• If Darius escaped they could be on his side; if he was destroyed, there was nothing of which the Scythians could complain. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• When, a little after sunrise, Alexander came up, Darius was already dead. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Histi?us did not put it quite in that fashion to Darius. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But he lacked the wisdom of Darius, and would not retreat. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But Xerxes, like Darius I before him, had conceived a disgust for European campaigns. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He represented himself as the loyal friend of Persia, and Darius was not disposed to be too critical. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Darius, for instance, was accompanied by his harem, and there was a great multitude of harem slaves, musicians, dancers, and cooks. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Of these Darius had a force of two hundred, and each chariot had scythes attached to its wheels and to the pole and body of the chariot. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The news came to Darius simultaneously with the news of a rebellion in Egypt, and he died while still undecided in which direction to turn. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• His army was just such another composite host as Darius had led into Thrace or Alexander defeated at Issus; it was a medley of levies. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• He was presently succeeded by Darius the Mede (521 B.C.), the son of Hystaspes, one of the chief councillors of Cyrus. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• But Crassus was less quick than Darius to realize the need of withdrawal, and the Parthians were better bowmen than the Scythians Darius met. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Darius had already made plans for an expedition into Europe, aiming not at Greece, but to the northward of Greece, across the Bosphorus and Danube. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Meanwhile, Darius and his host advanced along the coast of what is now Bulgaria, but which was then called Thrace. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The empire of Darius I was larger than any one of the preceding empires whose growth we have traced. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The pursuit of Darius III soon came to a pitiful end. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• So long as Darius continued to advance, however, the loyalty of his Greek allies remained unshaken. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Darius fled to the north into the country of the Medes. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Alexander would not make peace, and Napoleon found himself in much the same position as Darius had been in 2,300 years before in South Russia. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Roxana, his barbarian wife, was prompt to murder, as a rival, the daughter of Darius. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Darius led the retreat. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• At first it was a pursuit of Darius. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Darius was first incited to attack the Greeks in Europe by a homesick Greek physician at his court, who wanted at any cost to be back in Greece. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• In this cart lay Darius, stabbed in a score of places and bleeding to death. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• The pleasure and interest had gone out of the European expedition for Darius. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Darius escaped from his war chariot--that out-of-date instrument--and fled on horseback, leaving even his harem in the hands of Alexander. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• It was a conglomerate army like the army of Darius or the army of Kavadh. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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