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of Kyrene, the Kyrenians let them go through their town in order toavoid neglect of some oracle. Then as the army was going through,Badres the commander of the fleet urged that they should capture thecity, but Amasis the commander of the land-army would not consent toit; for he said that they had been sent against no other city of theHellenes except Barca. When however they had passed through and wereencamping on the hill of Zeus Lycaios, they repented of not havingtaken possession of Kyrene; and they endeavoured again to pass intoit, but the men of Kyrene would not allow them. Then upon thePersians, although no one fought against them, there fell a suddenpanic, and they ran away for about sixty furlongs and then encamped.And when the camp had been placed here, there came to it a messengerfrom Aryandes summoning them back; so the Persians asked the Kyreniansto give them provisions for their march and obtained their request;and having received these, they departed to go to Egypt. After thisthe Libyans took them up,[183] and killed for the sake of theirclothes and equipment those of them who at any time were left orstraggled behind, until at last they came to Egypt.204. This army of the Persians reached Euesperides, and this was theirfurthest point in Libya: and those of the Barcaians whom they hadreduced to slavery they removed again from Egypt and brought them tothe king, and king Dareios gave them a village in the land of Bactriain which to make a settlement. To this village they gave the name ofBarca, and it still continued to be inhabited by them even down to myown time, in the land of Bactria.205. Pheretime however did not bring her life happily to an end anymore than they: for as soon as she had returned from Libya to Egyptafter having avenged herself on the Barcaians, she died an evil death,having become suddenly full of worms while yet alive: for, as itseems, too severe punishments inflicted by men prove displeasing[184]to the gods. Such and so great was the punishment inflicted byPheretime the wife of Battos on the men of Barca.----------NOTES TO BOOK IV[1] Some enterprises had been entrusted to others, e.g. the attack onSamos; but this had not been the case with the capture of Babylon,therefore some Editors have proposed corrections, e.g. {au tou}(Schweighäuser), and {autika} (Stein).[2] See i. 106.[3] {tes ano 'Asies}: this means Eastern Asia as distinguished from