Assertion: eunuch | /r/HasProperty | herodotus
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text: As part of their tribute, the Babylonians annually sent five hundred boys to the court of the Persian king to be made eunuchs (Herodotus 3.92).
text: probably were also made eunuchs (Herodotus 3.97).
text: The provinces of Babylonia and Assyria sent as tribute to Darius a thousand talents of silver, along with five hundred boys to be made into eunuchs (Herodotus, Persian Wars
text: Another chief eunuch of Xerxes, Hermotimos, although he is not mentioned in the Bible, was the one who exacted his revenge on the slave-dealer who had castrated him, by turning both him and his sons into eunuchs (Herodotus, Persian Wars