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 446 ARTAXERXES. that Artaxerxes married not only this one, but a second daughter also, Amestris, of whom we shall speak by and by. But he ■ so loved Atossa when she became his consort, that when leprosy had run through her whole body, he was not in the least offended at it ; but putting vip his prayers to Juno for her, to this one alone of all the deities he made obeisance, by laying his hands upon the earth ; and his satraps and favorites made such oflei'- ings to the goddess by his direction, that all along for. sixteen furlongs, betwixt the court and her temple, the road was filled up with gold and silver, purple and horses, devoted to her. He waged war out of his own kingdom with the Egyptians, under the conduct of Pharnabazus and Iphicrates, but was unsuccessful by reason of their dissensions. In his expedition against the Cadusians, he went himself in person with three hundred thousand footmen and ten thousand horse. And making an incur- sion into their country, which was so mountainous as scarcely to be passable, and withal very misty, producing no sort of harvest of corn or the like, but with pears, apples, and other tree-fruits feeding a warlike and valiant breed of men, he unawares fell into great dis- tresses and dangers. For there was nothing to be got, fit for his men to eat, of the growth of that place, nor could any thing be imported from any other. All they could do was to kill their beasts of burden, and thus an ass's head could scarcely be bought for sixty drachmas. In short, the king's own table failed ; and there were but few horses left ; the rest they had spent for food. Then Teribazus, a man often in great favor with his prince for his valor, and as often out of it for his buffoonery, and particularly at that time in humble estate and neglected, was the deliverer of the king and his army. There being two kings amongst the Cadusians, and each of them en-