and from that place, he passed over himself in his ships to Asia, but to command his army in Europe he left Megabazos a Persian, to whom Dareios once gave honour by uttering in the land of Persia this saying:-Dareios was beginning to eat pomegranates, and at once when he opened the first of them, Artabanos his brother asked him of what he would desire to have as many as there were seeds in the pomegranate:
hemendik untziz Asiara igaro zen, eta Europan Megabazo persiarra uzten du gudalburu; honi behin Dariok ohore egin zion, persiarren artean honelako hitzak esanez: Dario mingrana batzuk jatera zihoala, lehenengo mingrana ireki bezain azkar, anaia Artabanok zer nahi zezakeen galdetu zion mingranan zeuden aleak bezainbat ugari izatea.