She is accustomed to hot weather on the Nile, and will not find our beautiful Susa too warm.' The king seems wonderfully fond of this woman." "He does indeed! All other women have become perfectly indifferent to him, and he means soon to make her his queen." "That is unjust; Phaedime, as daughter of the Achaemenidae, has an older and better right." "No doubt, but whatever the king wishes, must be right." "The ruler's will is the will of God." "Well said! A true Persian will kiss his king's hand, even when dripping with the blood of his own child." "Cambyses ordered my brother's execution, but I bear him no more ill-will for it than I should the gods for depriving me of my parents.
Here, you fellows! draw the curtains back; the guests are coming.

Look sharp, you dogs, and do your duty! Farewell, Artabazos, we shall have warm work to-night.".