similar idioms that show that every province and people was included, one after the other, with none omitted. In its own script … in its own language: in the vast Persian Empire, many languages were spoken. The main languages were various dialects of Persian, Elamite, Babylonian, Aramaic, Phoenician, Egyptian, and Greek; and each of these languages had a different script. Letters and other written documents were sent in the various languages spoken in the Empire, using the script of each language,