oebares造句

• According to Herodotus, Darius had a slave, Oebares who helped Darius win this contest.
• Before the contest, Oebares rubbed his hand over the genitals of a mare that Darius's horse had a fondness for.
• When the six nobles gathered outside, Oebares placed his hands beside the nostrils of Darius's horse, who became excited at the smell and neighed.
• Darius did not believe that he had achieved the throne through fraud but through brilliant sagacity, even erecting a statue of himself mounted on his neighing horse stating " Darius, son of Hystaspes, obtained the sovereignty of Persia by the sagacity of his horse and the ingenious contrivance of Oebares, his groom ."