The pretender was captured and treated almost exactly in the same way as the Mede whose example he had followed.

His nose and ears were cut off; he was chained for a while at the palace door; and finally he was crucified at Arbela.
Another trifling revolt occurred about the same time in Margiana.

The Margians rebelled and set up a certain Phraates, a native, to be their king.

But the satrap of Bactria, within whose province Margiana lay, quelled the revolt almost immediately.
Hitherto, however thickly troubles had come upon him, Darius could have the satisfaction of feeling that he was contending with foreigners, and that his own nation at any rate was faithful and true.

But now this consolation was to be taken from him.