I cannot tell what need you had of me, or what promise you ever gave me, to make you do as you have done.

I had shown you no kindness for your private self: it was because you thought I had been of some little service to your friends, that you came to help me thus, and help me you did, from death to life.
Left to myself I was lost.

[12] By heaven above, I swear it, Cyrus, if I had been a father as I was born to be, God knows whether I could have found in the son of my loins so true a friend as you.

I know of sons--this king of ours is such an one, who has caused his own father ten thousand times more trouble than ever he causes you." [13] And Cyrus made answer: "You have overlooked a much more wonderful thing, Gadatas, to turn and wonder at me." "Nay," said Gadatas, "what could that be ?" "That all these Persians," he answered, "are so zealous in your behalf, and all these Medes and Hyrcanians, and every one of our allies, Armenians, Sakians, Cadousians." [14] Then Gadatas prayed aloud: "O Father Zeus, may the gods heap blessings on them also, but above all on him who has made them what they are! And now, Cyrus, that I may entertain as they deserve these men you praise, take the gifts I bring you as their host, the best I have it in my power to bring." And with the word he brought out stores of every kind, enough for all to over sacrifice who listed; and the whole army was entertained in a manner worthy of their feat and their success.
[15] Meanwhile the Cadousians had been always in the rear, unable to share in the pursuit, and they longed to achieve some exploit of their own.

So their chieftain, with never a word to Cyrus, led them forth alone, and raided the country towards Babylon.