/lit/ - Literature

When Artabanes delivers his chilling warning to Xerxes that "God always smites the greatest, just as lightning smites the tallest tree or beast, so does He plainly love to punish that which exalts itself" (paraphrasing maybe one of the greatest lines in literature tbwqh), in the Greek original, is Artabanes referring to "God", to wit, Ahura Mahzda, the chief God of Persia, or is he speaking of "the god" (aka the most topical god to the situation), a figure that the Greek audience would be much more conversant with?