Then Darius the king made a decree, and search was made in the house of the rolls, where the treasures were laid up in Babylon.
Ver. 1. Then Darius the king] DARIUS HYSTASPES, who succeeded Cambyses, being chosen by the princes of the Persians, as saith Herodotus. Plato commendeth him for a restorer of the Persian monarchy, much defaced under Cambyses. Howbeit he discommends him for this, that he bred not his son Xerxes so well as he might have done, and further testifieth, that to him it might be said: O Darius, how little care hast thou taken to shun Cyrus's slackness! for thou hast bred Xerxes every whit as ill as he did Cambyses, W Dαρειε ως του Kυρου κακον ουκ εμα- Yες ..
In the house of the rolls] So called, because rolled up together, volumes rolled up, like the web upon the pin.