83. While Dareios was preparing to go against the Scythians and was sending messengers to appoint to some the furnishing of a land-army, to others that of ships, and to others the bridging over of the Thracian Bosphorus, Artabanos, the son of Hystaspes and brother of Dareios, urged him by no means to make the march against the Scythians, telling him how difficult the Scythians were to deal with.
83. Dario szythiarren aurka prestatzen ari zen bitartean eta batzuei oinezko gudarostea eta besteei itsasuntziak emateko eta hurrengoei Thraziar Bosporon zubia egiteko aginduz mandatariak bidaltzen ari zela, Artabano Hystaspesenak, Darioren anaia zenak, szythiarren aurkako joanaldirik inola ere ez egiteko eskatzen zion, hauenganako bideraezina zehatz adieraziz.