Mossynoicoi and Mares three hundred talents were
ordered: this is the nineteenth division. Of the Indians the number is
far greater than that of any other race of men of whom we know; and
they brought in a tribute larger than all the rest, that is to say three
hundred and sixty talents of gold-dust: this is the twentieth division.

95. Now if we compare Babylonian with Euboic talents, the silver is
found to amount to nine thousand eight hundred and eighty 82 talents;
and if we reckon the gold at thirteen times the value of silver, weight
for weight, the gold-dust is found to amount to four thousand six
hundred and eighty Euboic talents. These being all added together,
the total which was collected as yearly tribute for Dareios amounts to
fourteen thousand five hundred and sixty Euboic talents: the sums which
are less than these 83 I pass over and do not mention.

96. This was the tribute which came in to Dareios from Asia and from
a small part of Libya: but as time went on, other tribute came in also
from the islands and from those who dwell in Europe as far as Thessaly.
This tribute the king stores up in his treasury in the following
manner:--he melts it down and pours it into jars of earthenware, and when
he has filled the jars he takes off the earthenware jar from the
metal; and when he wants money he cuts off so much as he needs on each
occasion.

97. These were the provinces and the assessments of tribute: and
the Persian land alone has not been mentioned by me as paying a
contribution, for the Persians have their land to dwell in free from
payment. The following moreover had no tribute fixed for them to pay,
but brought gifts, namely the Ethiopians who border upon Egypt, whom
Cambyses subdued as he marched against the Long-lived Ethiopians, those
84 who dwell about Nysa, which is called "sacred," and who celebrate the
festivals in honour of Dionysos: these Ethiopians and those who dwell
near them have the same kind of seed as the Callantian Indians, and they
have underground dwellings. 85 These both together brought every other
year, and continue to bring even to my own time, two quart measures 86
of unmelted gold and two hundred blocks of ebony and five Ethiopian boys
and twenty large elephant tusks. The Colchians also had set themselves
among those who brought gifts, and with them those who border upon them
extending as far as the range of the Caucasus (for the Persian rule
extends as far as these mountains,