I want especially to excite the Achaemenidae against our enemy.

How it will enrage your grandfather Intaphernes, and your father Otanes to see you in the dust before a stranger! Their wounded pride will bring them over to our side, and if they are too 'noble,' as they call it, to undertake anything themselves against a woman, still they will be more likely to help than to hinder us, if I should need their assistance.

Then, when the Egyptian is ruined, if you have done as I wish, the king will remember your sad pale face, your humility and forgetfulness of self.

The Achaemenidae, and even the Magi, will beg him to take a queen from his own family; and where in all Persia is there a woman who can boast of better birth than you?
Who else can wear the royal purple but my bright bird of Paradise, my beautiful rose Phaedime?
With such a prize in prospect we must no more fear a little humiliation than a man who is learning to ride fears a fall from his horse." And she, princess as she was, answered: "I will obey you." "Then we are certain of victory," said the eunuch.

"There, now your eyes are flashing darkly again as I like to see them, my queen.