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Cyrus, Araspes, Panthea, and forms of equal loftiness revived in him; he felt the spirit of Plato weaving within him; he felt that he needed that spirit to reproduce those pictures for himself and for others so much the more since he desired not so keenly to evoke poetic phantoms as, rather, to create a moral influence for actual beings.
Abradates's eight-horse chariot. Panthea's presents for her husband. Imposing spectacle. Panthea's preparations. Panthea offers her presents. Abradates's pleasure. Abradates departs for the field. The farewell. The order of battle. Appearance of Abradates. The charge. Terrible havoc made by the chariots. The great victory. The council of war. Abradates slain. Panthea's grief.
"The middle one is in memory of the princely pair Panthea and Abradatas, and the largest, that one to the left, was erected to the father of Croesus, Alyattes. It was raised by the tradesmen, mechanics, and girls, to their late king, and on the five columns, which stand on its summit, you can read how much each of these classes contributed to the work. The girls were the most industrious.
"I knew a little girl who when I took her on my shoulder would stretch out her arms and exclaim, 'I am so tall! She fancied that she was taller than I then, and yet was only little Panthea." "But in her own conception of herself, it was she who was tall, and that decides the issue, for to each of us a thing is only that which it seems to us.
A great many extraordinary and dramatic incidents and adventures, similar in general character to the story of Panthea, are interwoven with the narrative in Xenophon's history.
We have given the story of Panthea, as contained in the preceding chapter, in our own language, it is true, but without any intentional addition or embellishment whatever.
On it are the simple words: 'To Panthea, Abradatas, and the most faithful of servants. You see, children, the man who had loved such a woman could never care for another." The young men listened in silence, and remained some time after Araspes had finished, without uttering a word.
And his good disciple, feigning or reciting, but, in my opinion, rather reciting than feigning, the rare perfections of the great Cyrus, makes him distrustful of his own strength to resist the charms of the divine beauty of that illustrous Panthea, his captive, and committing the visiting and keeping her to another, who could not have so much liberty as himself.
Panthea killed herself by his dead body. Her servants, on hearing of this, put an end to their own lives too at the grave of this best of mistresses. Cyrus shed tears over this noble pair, and had a stone set up to their memory, which you can see near Sardis.
In a few minutes she ceased to breathe. Cyrus expressed his respect for the memory of Abradates and Panthea by erecting a lofty monument over their common grave. General character of Xenophon's history. Dialogues and conversations. Ancient mode of discussion. Cyrus's games. Grand procession. The races. The Sacian. His success. Mode of finding a worthy man. Pheraulas wounded.
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