Thus we shall fall on the enemy at the height of his confusion.

And, God helping me, I shall be with you also, cutting my way through the rout by the quickest road I can.
[10] So he spoke, and sent the watchword down the lines, "Zeus our saviour, and Zeus our leader," and went forward.

As he passed between the chariots and the cuirassiers, he would say to some, "My men, the look on your faces rejoices my heart," and to others, "You understand, gentlemen, that this battle is not for the victory of a day, but for all that we have won ere now, and for all our happiness to come." [11] And to others, "My friends, we can never reproach the gods again: to-day they have put all blessings in our hands.

[12] Let us show ourselves good men and true." Or else, "Gentlemen, can we invite each other to a more glorious feast than this?
This day all gallant hearts are bidden; this day they may feast their friends." [13] Or again, "You know, I think, the prizes in this game: the victors pursue and smite and slay, and win wealth and fame and freedom and empire: the cowards lose them all.

He who loves his own soul let him fight beside me: for I will have no disgrace." [14] But if he met soldiers who had fought for him before, he only said, "To you, gentlemen, what need I say?
You know the brave man's part in battle, and the craven's." [15] And when he came to Abradatas, he halted, and Abradatas gave the reins to his charioteer and came up to him, and others gathered round from the infantry and the chariots, and Cyrus said: "God has rewarded you, Abradatas, according to your prayer, you and yours.