Cyrus

Cyrus’s instructions to his children that neither they nor anyone else touch his body after his soul leaves it, I ascribe to his own beliefs.

Cyrus employed an entire army for several days to punish the Gyndes river for the fright it gave him while crossing it;

They know the story of King Croesus who, taken prisoner by Cyrus and condemned to die, cried “O Solon!

So he decided to surprise a good friend of his, a poor young man who was chasing after wealth, by giving him all of his, great and overflowing such as it was, as well as all that was added to it everyday by the generosity of his master, Cyrus, and by war.