And under the supremacy of the Medes the various nations used also to govern one another according to the same rule as the Persians observe in giving honour, the Medes governing the whole and in particular those who dwelt nearest to themselves, and these having rule over those who bordered upon them, and those again over the nations that were next to them:
mediarrak ziren guztiongan eta batez ere berengandik hurbilen zituztenengan agintzen zutenak; aldi berean horiek mugakideengan, eta hauek jarraian zetozenengan agintzen zuten, persiarrek duten estimu-mailaren arabera;