A eunuch had found it under the windows of Nitetis' sleeping-apartment.
Cambyses examined the weapon carefully.

Its costly hilt was thickly set with rubies and turquoises.

As he looked he turned pale, and dashed the dagger on the ground before Bartja with such violence, that the stones fell out of their setting.
"This is your dagger, you wretch!" he shrieked, seized by the same violent passion as before.

"This very morning you used it to give the last thrust to the wild boar, that I had mortally wounded.

Croesus, you ought to know it too, for my father brought it from your treasure-house at Sardis.