Kitap 3
2.18
And what, said he, if still other blessings should accrue to you as a result of the proposed peace? We should be still more pleased, they answered. Well said he, do you think that you are now poor for any other reason than because you have so little fertile land? In this also they agreed with him. Well then, said Cyrus, would you avail yourselves of the permission to till as much Armenian land as you wish on condition that you paid in full just as much rental as other tenants in Armenia do? Yes said the Chaldaeans, if we could be sure of not being molested.
2.19
Tell me, King of Armenia, said he, would you be willing that that land of yours which now lies uncultivated should be cultivated, if those who cultivate it would pay you the usual rental? The Armenian answered that he would give a great deal to have it so; for in this way his revenues would be greatly increased.
