And if any of your opponents ride up with their right hands raised, welcome them as friends." [14] Accordingly Hystaspas went off and got under arms, while the bodyguard galloped to the spot.

But before they reached the scouts, some one met them with his squires, the man who had been sent out as a spy, the guardian of the lady from Susa, Araspas himself.

[15] When the news reached Cyrus, he sprang up from his seat, went to meet him himself, and clasped his hand, but the others, who of course knew nothing, were utterly dumbfounded, until Cyrus said: "Gentlemen, the best of our friends has come back to us.

It is high time that all men should know what he has done.

It was not through any baseness, or any weakness, or any fear of me, that he left us; it was because I sent him to be my messenger, to learn the enemy's doings and bring us word.