“Let’s each offer one word that we think is the most superior thing in the world. To the one whose statement seems wisest, King Darius will give expensive gifts and great prizes as a reward.
‘Let each of us state what one thing is strongest; and to the one whose statement seems wisest, King Darius will give rich gifts and great honours of victory.
“Let each of us state what one word is strongest, and to the one whose statement seems wisest, King Darius will give rich gifts and great honors of victory.
“Let each of us state what one thing is strongest; and to him whose statement seems wisest, Darius the king will give rich gifts and great honors of victory.
Say we each of us a word, that before pass in cunning, (or that shall surpass in knowing, or in knowledge); and whose ever word seem wiser than of another [or of the tother], king Darius shall give to him great gifts,