The Colchians also had set themselves among those who brought gifts, and with them those who border upon them extending as far as the range of the Caucasus (for the Persian rule extends as far as these mountains, but those who dwell in the parts beyond Caucasus toward the North Wind regard the Persians no longer),-these, I say, continued to bring the gifts which they had fixed for themselves every four years even down to my own time, that is to say, a hundred boys and a hundred maidens.
Eta kolkhoek eta Kaukasoar mendirainoko mugakideek ere emaitzak ematea erabaki zuten (persiarrek mendi horretaraino agintzen baitute eta Kaukasoar mendiz ipar-haizealdeko herriek ez baitute jada persiarren ardurarik); horrela bada, haiek oraindik nire garaian ere bost urtez behin eramaten zituzten erabakitako emariok: ehun mutil eta ehun neska.