[28] So he said to the company: "Son of Armenia, and men of the Chaldaeans, I have something to ask you.

Tell me, if I were to send ambassadors to India, would you send some of your own folk with them to show them the way, and support them in gaining for us all that I desire?
I still need more money if I am to pay all the wages, as I wish, in full, and give rewards and make presents to such of my soldiers as deserve them.

It is for such things I need all the money I can get, for I believe them to be essential.

It would be pleasanter for me not to draw on you, because I look on you already as my friends, but I should be glad to take from the Indian as much as he will give me.
My messenger--the one for whom I ask guides and coadjutors--will go to the king and say: 'Son of India, my master has sent me to you, bidding me say that he has need of more money.

He is expecting another army from Persia,' and indeed I do expect one," Cyrus added.