21/72 Further, on this day year, the city will overflow once more with wealth and beauty. But if you sack it, you will destroy the crafts in its ruin, and they, we know, are the well-spring of all loveliness. [14] Howbeit, you need not decide at once, wait and see what is brought to you. Send first," he added, "to my own treasuries, and let your guards take some of my own men with them." To all this Cyrus consented, and then he said: [15] "And now, O Croesus, tell me one thing more. How did matters go between you and the oracle at Delphi? |