What is Herodotus describing when he writes: "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night stay from the swiftest possible completion of their appointed stage?"
a. Persian cavalry.
b. Persian attack ships.
c. Phoenician ships.
d. Alexander's cavalry.
e. Persian couriers.
e
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