136. Mardonios having read that which the Oracles uttered, whatever that was, after this sent as an envoy to Athens Alexander the son of Amyntas, the Macedonian, both because the Persians were connected with him by marriage, (for Gygaia the sister of Alexander and daughter of Amyntas had been married to a Persian Bubares, and from her had been born to him that Amyntas who lived in Asia, having the name of his mother's father, to whom the king gave Alabanda, a great city of Phrygia, to possess), and also Mardonios was sending him because he was informed that Alexander was a public guest-friend and benefactor of the Athenians;
batetik, persiarrek harekin ahaideturik zirelako (Bubares persiarra Gygearekin ezkonduta zegoen-Alexandroren arreba eta Amyntasen alaba-eta harengandik Amyntas Asiakoa izan zuen, amaren aldeko aitona bezala deitua, zeini erregek Alabandako gobernua eman zion, Phrygiako hiri garrantzitsua berau), eta bestetik, Alexandro athenastarren proxenos eta ongile zela jakin zuelako.