3 in the third year of his reign, he held a banquet for all his princes and his servants. The army of Persia+ and Meʹdi·a,+ the nobles, and the princes of the provinces* were before him,

15 Finally those men went in as a group to the king, and they said to the king: “Take note, O king, that the law of the Medes and the Persians is that any ban or decree that the king establishes cannot be changed.”+