Ten thousand talents of silver: According to Herodotus, the regular revenue of the Persian king consisted of 14,560 silver talents; so that,…

Ten thousand talents of silver. —This would be about two and a half million pounds sterling, being indeed more than two-thirds of …

If it please the king, let it be written, that they may be
destroyed
That is, a law mad…

Without some acquaintance with the human heart and the history of mankind, we would not think that any prince could consent to a dreadful proposal,…