For seven days then and seven nights Dareios was sleepless owing to the pain which he suffered; and at last on the eighth day, when he was in a wretched state, some one who had heard talk before while yet at Sardis of the skill of Demokedes of Croton, reported this to Dareios;
Hain zuzen, zazpi egun eta zazpi gau, zuen eritasunagatik esna egon zen Dario; zortzigarren egunean, ordea, gaizki aurkitzen zelarik, norbaitek, jada lehenago krotondar Demozedesen trebetasunaren berri entzun zuenez, Dariori iragarri zion;