Father of Xerxes

Usage examples of darius.

Apparently the Babylonians and the Indians had been in regular correspondence long before Darius and Scylax.

Darius indicated the long line of the river that runs from the high mountains east of Bactria down to a complex delta that empties into what is called the Sea of India.

I was also able to persuade Xerxes to denounce the devas and their worshipers in far stronger terms than Darius had ever used.

There was no love lost between Kane and Darius, and the prospect of them occupying the same place and time did not fill her up with the warmest and fuzziest of feelings.

She pulled the tarpaulin off of the object and gawked at the piece atop the pedestal for a long time, then turned to see Darius smiling.

Then Darius and I and my sister Artystone will occupy another shelf, while six of the nephews are to fill the remaining two shelves.

Tactfully, I would tell them that a maharajah more resembles the pharaoh in Egypt or the king of Babel, titles that Darius bore.

If Darius was not the most beautiful of the Persians, he was certainly a dazzling sight as he moved between the twenty-two columns of the apadana—rather like a lion, stalking.

If Darius was not the most beautiful of the Persians, he was certainly a dazzling sight as he moved between the twenty-two columns of the apadana-rather like a lion, stalking.

At the base of the cidaris, Darius wore the blue-and-white fillet of sovereignty that had belonged to Cyrus and before him to the ten successive kings of Media.

Darius drove us past this armed picket line and up the curving drive to the boardinghouse, then along the grassy track between the boardinghouse and the wood-shingled carriage house, then past that garage straight down the clovery slope towards Hellbender Pond.

Quite probably Old Hasius and Lasat might find enough here to link Copro to the Avenging Axe and the death of Darius.

She dreamed of Kara, looking like herself, and of Earle, looking like a cross between Angus and Darius.

Her thought carried an added nuance: the legendary Earle, in the story told on Jupiter, had looked like a cross between Angus and Darius.

You know that Earle in the Jupiter legend looks like a cross between Angus and Darius, and Kara looks like you.