Kitap 3
2.16
And believe me, Cyrus, said he, when I say that to have driven the Chaldaeans from these heights I would have given many times as much money as you now have from me; and the benefit that you promised to do us, when you received the money, you have already conferred so fully that we obviously now owe you a new debt of gratitude besides; and we on our part, if we have not lost all self-respect, should be ashamed if we did not repay it to you.
2.17
Thus the Armenian king spoke. Now the Chaldaeans had come back with the request that Cyrus should make peace with them. And Cyrus asked them: Is this the reason that you, Chaldaeans, now desire peace, because you think, that since we are in possession of these heights, you could live in greater security if we had peace than if we were at war?The Chaldaeans assented.
2.18
And what, said he, if still other blessings should accrue to you as a result of the proposed peace? We should be still more pleased, they answered. Well said he, do you think that you are now poor for any other reason than because you have so little fertile land? In this also they agreed with him. Well then, said Cyrus, would you avail yourselves of the permission to till as much Armenian land as you wish on condition that you paid in full just as much rental as other tenants in Armenia do? Yes said the Chaldaeans, if we could be sure of not being molested.
2.19
Tell me, King of Armenia, said he, would you be willing that that land of yours which now lies uncultivated should be cultivated, if those who cultivate it would pay you the usual rental? The Armenian answered that he would give a great deal to have it so; for in this way his revenues would be greatly increased.
