This officer, who is called Intaphres, speedily chastised the rebels, capturing Babylon, and taking Aracus prisoner.

Crucifixion was again the punishment awarded to the rebel leader.
A season of comparative tranquillity seems now to have set in; and it may have been in this interval that Darius found time to chastise the remoter governors, who without formally declaring themselves independent, or assuming the title of king, had done acts savoring of rebellion.

Oroetes, the governor of Sardis, who had comported himself strangely even under Cambyses, having ventured to entrap and put to death an ally of that monarch's, Polycrates of Samos, had from the time of the Magian revolution assumed an attitude quite above that of a subject.

Having a quarrel with Mitrobates, the governor of a neighboring province, he murdered him and annexed his territory.

When Darius sent a courier to him with a message the purport of which he disliked, he set men to waylay and assassinate him.