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Updated: May 16, 2025
Her canals and levees. The bridge over the Euphrates. The tomb of the queen. Cyrus plans an attack upon Babylon. Government of Lydia. Cyrus returns eastward. Revolt of the Lydians. Detachment of Mazares. Flight of Pactyas. Pactyas at Cyme. The people consult the oracle. Reply of the oracle. Aristodicus and the birds' nests. Capture of Pactyas. Situation of Belshazzar.
For in the investigation of the suit which this Aristodicus had against him, he objected to the suit being before the polemarch, and it was denied that he was a Plataean. 14. Then having brought suit against the witness, he did not carry it out, but allowed Aristodicus to defeat him. And I will bring witnesses that this is true. Now shut off the water.
The messengers must have misunderstood or misreported the answer which they had received. He finally persuaded his countrymen to send a second embassy: he himself was placed at the head of it. On their arrival, Aristodicus addressed the oracle as follows: "To avoid a cruel death from the Persians, Pactyas, a Lydian, fled to us for refuge. The Persians demanded that we should surrender him.
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