The Medians bring back the bread that was cast upon the waters.
Cyrus turns this gain to new account.

He sacrifices the present natural gain, i.e.the wealth, to the harder spiritual gain, viz., their positive as opposed to their merely negative alliance.

Cyrus _is_ the archic man.
C2.4.I have a sort of idea, or feeling that here the writer takes up his pen afresh after a certain interval.

C4-6 are a reduplication, not unnatural indeed, but _pro tanto_ tautological.
C2.7.

Semi-historical basis.