A tribute — Perhaps an allusion to some fresh arrangement of the tribute likely to have followed on the return of Xerxes from Greece.<…

Laid a tribute. —The disastrous expedition to Greece must have taxed the resources of the empire to the utmost, and fresh tribute …

And the King Ahasuerus laid a tribute on the land, and upon the isles of the sea . Which include all his dominions, both …

Many instances of the grandeur of Ahasuerus might have been given: these were written in the Persian chronicles, which have long since been lost, w…