Kitap 5
2.28
Aye, by Zeus, said Gobryas; there areThe king and Gadatas others also. But why should I recount his acts of insolence toward the weak? For once when he and the son of a man much more powerful than I were drinking together, a young man who, like my son, was his comrade, he had him seized and castrated; and the occasion, so some people said, was simply because his concubine had praised his friend, remarking how handsome he was and felicitating the woman who should be his wife; but the king himself now maintains that it was because the man had made advances toward his concubine. And so now he is a eunuch, but he has come into the kingdom, for his father is dead.
2.29
Well then, said Cyrus, do you think that he also would be glad to see us, if he thought we could help him? Think said Gobryas, I am sure of it. But, Cyrus, it would be difficult to see him. Why? asked Cyrus. Because, to effect a union of forces with him, one has to march along under the very walls of Babylon.
