merchant or broker (Herodotus, iii. 89.)
A Persian saying, that Cyrus was the father and
Darius the master, of his subjects, was applied to Vataces
and his son. But Pachymer (l. i. c. 23) has mistaken the
mild Darius for the cruel Cambyses, despot or tyrant of his
people. By the institution of taxes, Darius had incurred the less odious, but more contemptible, name of merchant or broker (Herodotus, iii. 89.)