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Show lr00TISOLB KING- CYRUS AND A FEW ITEMS OF HIS HISTORY. continued CROESUS asked time of Cyrus be-lore be-lore he started, to expostulate with his gods, saying they had deceived him Before he started on hi-? campaign, being a very religious prince, enquired of his geds about his success, and was told by one of them that he hud nothing to fear, only when a mule reigned over Media; and the other told him that when he crossed the river Halys, he would ovet throw a very great empire. Now Croesus thought it impossiblo that a mule could ever rign over media, therefore there was no danger from that source, and the empire he was to overthrow, was the Medo-Persian; but the oracles ora-cles explained that the mule was King Cyrus his father being a Persian WHimiiinjitinin'iMniwiini i ip wt hi inn rm i. in uIHiiIiiliill.i IH rus a mule; and the empire he was to TO KE CONTINUED. |
