Kitap 3
1.5
And when Cyrus sawThe king entrapped this he surrounded the hill with the troops he had with him and sent orders to Chrysantas to leave a guard upon the mountains and come. Thus Cyrus’s army was being brought together. Then he sent a herald to the Armenian to ask him the following question: Tell me, king of Armenia, he said, whether you prefer to remain there and fight against hunger and thirst, or to come down into the plain and fight it out with us?The Armenian answered that he had no wish to fight against either.
1.6
Again Cyrus sent to him and asked: Why then do you sit there and refuse to come down? Because, he answered, I am in a quandary what to do.But said Cyrus, there is no occasion whatever for that; for you are free to come down for trial. And who, said he, will be my judge? He, to be sure, to whom God has given the power to deal with you as he will, even without a trial. Then the Armenian, recognizing the exigency of his case, came down. And Cyrus received both the king and all that belonged to him into the midst and set his camp round them, for by this time he had all his forces together.
1.7
Now at this juncture Tigranes, the king’s elder son, returned from a journey abroad. He it was who had been Cyrus’s companion once on a hunt; and when he heard what had occurred, he came at once, just as he was, to Cyrus. And when he saw his father and mother and brothers and sisters and his own wife all made prisoners, he wept, as might be expected.
1.8
But Cyrus, when he looked upon him, showed him no token of friendship, but merely remarked: You have come just in time to attend your father’s trial.And immediately he called together the officers ofThe court martial of the king both the Medes and the Persians and all the Armenian nobles who were present. And the women who were there in their carriages he did not exclude but permitted them to attend.
