Key to Easy Latin Stories for beginners/Part III/III
III.PERSIAN COURIERS.
120.Among the Persians, when they wish to announce anything, they do as follows. Of as many days as is the whole journey, so many horses and men stand ready at each day stage; whom neither rain, nor night, nor heat, nor snow prevents from finishing each one his own ride as quickly as possible. For he who runs first hands over his orders to the second, the second to the third; and so the orders handed (first) to one and (then) to another, pass through one man at a time.