And all we could learn from others about him or felt we might infer for ourselves we will here endeavour to set forth.
[C.2] The father of Cyrus, so runs the story, was Cambyses, a king of the Persians, and one of the Perseidae, who look to Perseus as the founder of their race.

His mother, it is agreed, was Mandane, the daughter of Astyages, king of the Medes.

Of Cyrus himself, even now in the songs and stories of the East the record lives that nature made him most fair to look upon, and set in his heart the threefold love of man, of knowledge, and of honour.

He would endure all labours, he would undergo all dangers, for the sake of glory.

[2] Blest by nature with such gifts of soul and body, his memory lives to this day in the mindful heart of ages.