It was necessary to win over the masses by every means, if they were to share our toils and our dangers willingly.

[56] But now you have won them, and not them alone; you have it in your power to gain others, and the moment has come when you ought to have a house to yourself.

What would your empire profit you if you alone were left without hearth or home?
Man has nothing more sacred than his home, nothing sweeter, nothing more truly his.

And do you not think," he added, "that we ourselves would be ashamed if we saw you bearing the hardships of the camp while we sat at home by our own firesides?
Should we not feel we had done you wrong, and taken advantage of you ?" [57] When Chrysantas had spoken thus, many others followed him, and all to the same effect.

And so it came about that Cyrus entered the palace, and those in charge brought the treasures from Sardis thither, and handed them over.