What could you tell to match this, Mnesippos,
if I should let you count up ten more in addition
to your five, and not on oath, either, so that you
might add plenty of inventions? And yet I gave
you the bare facts. If you had told a story like
this I know very well how much cleverness you
would have mixed in your tale, what prayers Dandamis offered, and the manner of blinding him,
and what he said and how he went off again, and
how the Scythians received him with blessings,
and the other devices you are wont to employ on
your audience.