Kitap 3
3.12
And when the staff-officersοἱ ἐπικαίριοι are literally the most timely, the most important, the chief officers. It is consistently rendered by staff-officers in this translation, though the word may be applied to all who are in authority, whether military or civil. had come together, he conducted them along the ranks, showed them in what good order everything was and pointed out to them the special strength of each contingent of the auxiliaries. And when he had filled them with an eager desire for immediate action, he bade them then go to their own several divisions and tell their men what he had told them and try to inspire in them all a desire to begin the campaign, for he wished them all to start out in the best of spirits; and early in the morning they were to meet him at Cyaxares’s gates.
3.13
Thereupon they all went their way and proceeded so to do. At daybreak on the following day the staff-officers presented themselves at the gates of the king. So Cyrus went in with them to Cyaxares and began to speak as follows: I am sure, Cyaxares, said he, that you haveHe lays his plan before Cyaxares this long time been thinking no less than we of the proposition that I am going to lay before you; but perhaps you hesitate to broach the subject for fear it should be thought that you speak of an expedition from here because you are embarrassed at having to maintain us.
