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"If this is so," said Cyrus, "it puts it in your power to render me a very essential service." Cyrus then explained to Araspes the necessity that he was under of finding some confidential agent to go on a secret mission into the enemy's country, and the importance that the messenger should go under such circumstances as not to be suspected of being Cyrus's friend in disguise.
Rhodopis had told her about Cyrus's heroic deeds, the fall of Croesus and the power and wealth of the Persians, but still she had always fancied them a wild, uncultivated people. Now, however, her interest in Persia increased with every look at the handsome Bartja.
The pleasure of riding and of hunting in the park was very captivating to Cyrus's mind, and he consented to stay. He represented to his mother that it would be of great advantage to him, on his final return to Persia, to be a skillful and powerful horseman, as that would at once give him the superiority over all the Persian youths, for they were very little accustomed to ride.
His son Darius. Cyrus's dream. Hystaspes's commission. Cyrus marches into the queen's country. Success of the stratagem. Spargapizes taken prisoner. Tomyris's concern for her son's safety. Her conciliatory message. Mortification of Spargapizes. Cyrus gives him liberty within the camp. Death of Spargapizes. Grief and rage of Tomyris. The great battle. Cyrus is defeated and slain.
You have decided against law, and in favor of violence and wrong." Cyrus's sentence was thus condemned, and he was punished for not reasoning more soundly. The boys at this Persian court were trained to many manly exercises. They were taught to wrestle and to run.
Tomyris's treatment of Cyrus's body. Reflections. Hard-heartedness, selfishness, and cruelty characterize the ambitious. After having made the conquest of the Babylonian empire, Cyrus found himself the sovereign of nearly all of Asia, so far as it was then known.
The vice-regal palace, which was still kept up with great magnificence, had been, in the days when Croesus occupied it, the most splendid of royal residences; after the taking of Sardis, however, the greater part of the dethroned king's treasures and works of art had been sent to Cyrus's treasure-house in Pasargadae.
Rhodopis had told her about Cyrus's heroic deeds, the fall of Croesus and the power and wealth of the Persians, but still she had always fancied them a wild, uncultivated people. Now, however, her interest in Persia increased with every look at the handsome Bartja.
Cyrus could not be Augusta; few women can; but it was easy to be gussie irresponsible, silly, selfish. She had a vague, flat laugh, she ate a great deal of candy, and she was afraid of But one cannot catalogue Mrs. Cyrus's fears. They were as the sands of the sea for number. And these two men were governed by them.
Cyrus's kindness to Panthea. She is inconsolable. Panthea kills herself on the dead body of her husband. In the preceding chapters of this work, we have followed mainly the authority of Herodotus, except, indeed, in the account of the visit of Cyrus to his grandfather in his childhood, which is taken from Xenophon.
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