Let us gather round the public buildings and train ourselves, so that we may keep our hold on all we care for, and offer ourselves to Cyrus for his noble ends.

Of one thing we may be sure: Cyrus will never put us to any service which can make for his own good and not for ours.

Our needs are the same as his, and our foes the same." [6] When Chrysantas had said his say, many others followed to support him, Persians and allies alike, and it was agreed that the men of rank and honour should be in attendance continually at the palace gates, ready for Cyrus to employ, until he gave them their dismissal.

That custom is still in force, and to this day the Asiatics under the Great King wait at the door of their rulers.

[7] And the measures that Cyrus instituted to preserve his empire, as set forth in this account, are still the law of the land, maintained by all the kings who followed him.
[8] Only as in other matters, so here; with a good ruler, the government is pure; with a bad one, corrupt.