Tell your king (Xerxes), who sent you, how his Greek viceroy (Alexander I) of Macedonia has received you hospitably.

The Scythians take kannabis seed, creep in under the felts, and throw it on the red-hot stones. It smolders and sends up such billows of steam-smoke that no Gr…

Now, that these descendants of Perdiccas are Greeks, as they themselves say, I myself chance to know.

Force has no place where there is need of skill.