20 REV. AXDKEW CRAIG ROBIXSOX, M.A., OX DARIUS 



But Cyrus, replying to his uncle said, But you surely will not 

 put restraint on any one : but will give me those of your Medians 

 who may be willing to follow me : and perhaps we may come 

 back bringing to yourself, and to each of these your friends, things 

 over which you all will be greatly plea.sed.''' Cyaxares consented 

 that any of the Medians in his army who wished, might go with 

 CHtus ; and a friend of his own was deputed to see that whosoever 

 might be going was going of his own free T^ill. In the end, for 

 one motive or another — enumerated by Xenophon — nearly 

 the whole Median army volunteered, went ofi the same night with 

 Cyrus, and subsequently fought under his command side by side 

 with the Persians. Cyaxares, who had been drinking that night 

 vrith. some of his principal officers in the royal pavihon, was 

 much annoyed and mortified when he found himself thus aban- 

 doned by almost all his army ; but later on, after a httle, a meeting 

 between the uncle and the nephew occurred, in the course of 

 which C}T*us, by that fascinating charm of manner, by which he 

 bowed the hearts of all men to his will, restored his uncle to 

 good humour, and the reconciUation was sealed, after the Persian 

 manner, by a kiss. It was then agreed that Cyaxares should 

 return and guard the kingdom of Media, whilst Cyrus should 

 pursue his career of conquest. 



The sequel to the battle, of which an account has been given, 

 must be briefly told. On the same day that the Medians, as 

 already related, took service under Cyrus, a small tribe, the 

 Hyrcanians, bordering on and subject to the Ass}Tians, sent 

 messengers to C}tus sajing that they wished to come over to 

 his side, that they justly hated the Assyrians, and would lead 

 him to the place where the confederate armies were then en- 

 camped : and that if they marched quickly that night they might 

 catch them up, even at the following dawn. CSinis accepted 

 their ser^'ice and he led out his army that evening while it was 

 still light. So the army, led by the Hyrcanians, marched through 

 the night. But when the morning dawned, and the enemy 

 encamped saw the army of C}tiis approaching, they were seized 

 with utter panic, no one attempted to fight : they were routed 

 without a blow. The King of the Kappadocians and the King of 

 the Arabians were slain by the H}Tcanians, but the Assyrians 

 suffered most of aU. Croesus, Eang of Lydia, as it was summer, 

 had sent forward his women in carriages during the night that 

 they might travel more at ease in the cooler hours, and had 

 followed them himself, leading the cavaky ; and the Phrygian 



