Esther 1:4

the riches etc. Herod. (vii. 27) tells of the golden plane tree and the golden vine given by Pythius, a rich man of Celaenae, to Darius. Aeschylus (Persae, 161) mentions the walls hung with gold. [57] The text may refer among other things to the ingots of gold which Darius had stored in the treasury (Herod. iii. 96).

[57] χρυσεοστόλμους δόμους.

an hundred and fourscore days This may mean a series of entertainments to successive relays of guests. The -princes" could scarcely be all spared from their satrapies at once.