[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886) › c10.9309 # Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9309 Hobson-Jobson: A Glossary of Colloquial Anglo-Indian Words and Phrases, and of Kindred Terms, Etymological, Historical, Geographical and Discursive c10.9309 - **Language:** English ### [c10.9309](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9309) c. B.C. 524.—“Cambyses received the Libyan presents very graciously, but not so the gifts of the Cyrenaeans. They had sent no more than 500, \*minae\* of silver, which Cambyses, I imagine, thought too little. He therefore snatched the money from them, and with his own hand scattered it among the soldiers.”—\*Herodot.\* iii. ch. 13 (E.T. by Rawlinson). - [Previous: c10.9308](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9308) - [Next: c10.9310](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9310) - [Up: c10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9309](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.yule-burnell-1886.c10.9309) · Pramāṇa