When the king of Persia undertook to reduce Greece to the condition of a Persian Satrapy, there was imminent danger that all the enormous fruition of Greek thought in the intellectual life of the European world might have been nipped in the bud.
"American Political Ideas Viewed From The Standpoint Of Universal History"
John Fiske
"As soon as one of the Magi had bound up the wounds cut by the rope in my side, the king sent for me, gave me the chain I am now wearing and the revenues of an entire Satrapy, and then took me to his mother and sister.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers
I think we shall be able to find a Satrapy a-piece for them, as compensation for to-night's undeserved imprisonment.
"The Complete Historical Romances of Georg Ebers"
Georg Ebers