"And for your sons ?" "For them too, all that I have." "Good," answered Cyrus, "but is not that already twice as much as you possess?
[36] And you, Tigranes," said he, "at what price would you redeem your bride ?" Now the youth was but newly wedded, and his wife was beyond all things dear to him.

"I would give my life," said he, "to save her from slavery." [37] "Take her then," said Cyrus, "she is yours.

For I hold that she has never yet been made a prisoner, seeing that her husband never deserted us.

And you, son of Armenia," said he, turning to the king, "you shall take home your wife and children, and pay no ransom for them, so that they shall not feel they come to you from slavery.

But now," he added, "you shall stay and sup with us, and afterwards you shall go wherever you wish." And so the Armenians stayed.