It came from the story in the 5th century b . c . that a herald named phidippides ran the 26 miles from marathon to athens to announce the greek victory and died on the spot 它起源于公元前5世纪雅典长跑运动员费迪皮迪兹的故事，他以传令官的身份从马拉松到雅典跑了26英里宣告希腊在战争中的胜利，最后却牺牲了生命。
The state benefited from the land and house sales , since the land scribes took money and foods from the land buyers , and the house surveyors and street heralds took the same from the house buyers 国家从土地和房产的交易中获取税收，田籍书吏收取买田人的税铜或银和食品，房产测量吏和街区传令官从房买主收同样的税和礼品。
But they didn t know where the deer lived . so the king ordered a richly decorated elephant and told the herald , " take the elephant and a thousand pieces of money and go to all parts of the city 于是国王下令，派传令官领著装扮华丽的大象驮著一千个金币四处游街，向人民宣布：任何通报金鹿消息的人就可以得到大象和金币的奖赏。
