[29] Now Croesus, king of Lydia, seeing that it was summer-time, had sent his women on during the night, so that they might travel more pleasantly in the cool, and he himself had followed with his cavalry to escort them.

[30] The Lord of Hellespontine Phrygia, it is said, had done the same.

And these two, when they heard what was happening from the fugitives who overtook them, fled for their lives with the rest.

[31] But it was otherwise with the kings of Cappadocia and Arabia; they had not gone far, and they stood their ground, but they had not even time to put on their corslets, and were cut down by the Hyrcanians.

Indeed, the mass of those who fell were Assyrians and Arabians, for, being in their own country, they had taken no precautions on the march.