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Xenophon's romantic tales. Panthea a Susian captive. Valuable spoil. Its division. Share of Cyrus. Panthea given to Cyrus. Araspes. Abradates. Account of Panthea's capture. Her great loveliness. Attempts at consolation. Panthea's renewed grief. Cyrus declines to see Panthea. His reasons. Araspes's self-confidence. Panthea's patience and gentleness. Araspes's kindness to Panthea.
Notwithstanding the concealment produced by the attitudes and dress of these ladies, there was something about the air and figure of Panthea which showed at once that she was the queen. The leader of Araspes's party asked them all to rise. They did so, and then the superiority of Panthea was still more apparent than before.
His emotions master him. Araspes in love. Progress of the army. Araspes confesses his love. Panthea offended. Panthea appeals to Cyrus. Cyrus reproves Araspes. Cyrus's generosity. Araspes's continued distress. Plan of Cyrus. Araspes pretends to desert. Panthea proposes to send for her husband. Cyrus consents. Joyful meeting of Panthea and her husband. The armed chariots.
This made her only the more attractive; every attitude and movement seemed to possess, in Araspes's mind, an inexpressible charm. In a word, the result was what Cyrus had predicted. Araspes became wholly absorbed in the interest which was awakened in him by the charms of the beautiful captive. He made many resolutions, but they were of no avail.
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