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Updated: May 15, 2025
An Asiatic sailor clamoured at the money-changer’s stall for another obol in change for a Persian daric. “Buy my oil!” bawled the huckster from his wicker booth beside the line of Hermes-busts in the midst of the square. “Buy my charcoal!” roared back a companion, whilst past both was haled a grinning negro with a crier who bade every gentleman to “mark his chance” for a fashionable servant.
By a rush-candle’s flicker Sicinnus applied the dark dye with a practised hand. “You know the art well,” observed the outlaw. “Assuredly; the agent of Themistocles must be a Proteus with his disguises.” Sicinnus laid down his pot and brushes. They had no mirror, but Glaucon knew that he was transformed. The host got his daric.
The 'daric, a Persian gold coin, very much of the same value as our own rose noble, had its name from Darius.
At last they found a small tavern where a dozen shipmen sprawled on the earthen floor, and a gaping host was just quenching his last lamp. Sicinnus, however, seemed to know him. There was much protesting and headshaking, at last ended by the glint of a daric. The man grumbled, departed, returned after a tedious interval with a pot of ointment, found Hermes knew where.
At length it was found necessary to give the satraps the command of the troops, which took away one important check upon their power. There was a regular system of taxation, but to this were added extraordinary and oppressive levies. Darius introduced a uniform coinage. The name of the coin, "daric," is probably not derived from his name, however.
It is not perhaps altogether certain that he was the first king of Persia who coined money; but, if the term "daric" is really derived from his name, that alone would be a strong argument in favor of his claim to priority.
"I have been conquered by thirty thousand Persian archers," bitterly exclaimed Agesilaus, as he re-embarked, alluding to the Persian coin, the Daric, which was stamped with the image of an archer. THE INVASION OF PERSIA BY GREECE. At length Philip, the King of Macedon, projected a renewal of these attempts, under a far more formidable organization, and with a grander object.
=Boreas=: the god of the north wind. =Demagogues=: leaders of the people, popular orators. =Greaves=: armor for the front of the lower part of the leg. =Daric=: a Persian gold coin worth about $5.00. =The altar=: probably that where they had been sacrificing. Xenophon. =Mercenaries=: hired soldiers. =Milesians=: inhabitants of Miletus, Asia Minor.
Tell him to come hither instantly. He shall not lack reward. Make your feet fly. Here is something to speed them.” He flung at the boy a coin. Bias opened eyes and mouth in wonder. It was not silver, but a golden daric. “Don’t blink at it, sheep, but run. Bring Agis,” ordered the master,—and Bias’s legs never went faster than on that afternoon. Agis came.
Cyrus replied that his design was to march against his enemy, Abrocomas, satrap of Syria, who was encamped on the banks of the Euphrates. The Greeks, though they still suspected a delusion, contented themselves with this answer in the face of their present difficulties, especially as Cyrus promised to raise their pay from one Daric to one Daric and a half a month.
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