From the top of the pass Cyrus and his staff looked down and saw below them the Chaldaean villages with fugitives pouring from the nearest houses.

[11] Soon the rest of the army came up, and Cyrus ordered them all to take the morning meal.

When it was over, and he had ascertained that the look-out was really in a strong position, and well supplied with water, he set about fortifying a post without more ado, and he bade Tigranes send to his father and bid him come at once with all the carpenters and stonemasons he could fetch, and while a messenger went off to the king Cyrus did all he could with what he had at hand.
[12] Meanwhile they brought up the prisoners, all of them bound in chains and some wounded.

But Cyrus when he saw their plight ordered the chains to be struck off, and sent for surgeons to dress their wounds, and then he told them that he came neither to destroy them nor to war against them, but to make peace between them and the Armenians.

"I know," he said, "before your pass was taken you did not wish for peace.
Your own land was in safety and you could harry the Armenians: but you can see for yourselves how things stand to-day.