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Show w ,.. , ., : 3 MnstoiaiioL KING CYRUS 1 AND A FEW ITEMS OF HIS HISTORY. continued h TffiKOMihe time that Crus came j out of Persia with an army of 30. tfjj 000 soldiers, and took command of the M' dim army, he was considered by " m foreigners as king of both JN1 afions, but 9 was not king until the death ol'Oyax- S ars. Nerigiisser, in his great pre- Si purnth ns for the extermination of so potent an enemy as kiig Cytts sent ambassadors to the tings of L)dia, i': Phiygia. Oana, Cappadocia, Cilicia, ; P'iphlagonia and other nrighboting Nations. The king of Armenia, who ; , was subject to the Medes, seeing so -!fY$ 'aige an army coming ; against Cyrus, though: this a goorl time to revolt, and v refused his tjuota of soldiers and trib- - 'i ute money : but in that Cyrus soon f convinced him that he was very unwise -: for he took the best of his horses and came upon him before he was aware, and took him and all his family pus- , oners j but the king iulfilling, on his part that which was required of him ' was res ored to his former standing King Cyrus having iortified that part ' - v of the country with forts and garrisoned garrison-ed them, returned to the main body' of his army and waited the approach of .Nerigtisser's mighty host. They ;pt met on ths-b&r-der-s-of. the two coun- ii:ti tries ; nd a ferrible battle ensued, .in.,. - which Neriirlissor was slain and his -army vanquished. Croesus, king of Ldin, bein? next in authotity, took ;; command of the vanquished army and made a hasty retreat, but was overtaken over-taken by Cyrus and all their baggage fell tnto his hands, Croesus continued contin-ued his flight, homewhrd, and Cyrus pur-ued him and overtook him on the borders of his own territory and gave 1 l.i him baltle aprain, and conquered him. " Croesus agiiin reirrated to the city of ?h Sard is, i'tid Cyrus followed and shut him up in the city, and took the cdy ' ; 1 and made him a prisoner, and becau.o j Croesus had made war upon him ;- without provocation, he cundemoed I iQ him to be burned and ordered him ? bound on a pile of wood, and as the ; . t(n-h .was being applied, Croesus cried out ii" gi eat agony, oloo, Solon. Solon. ' Cyrus on enquiring the cause of these : ( xelamations was informed that a very if wise Athenian philosopher one lime -had visited Croesus in his capitol city and he shewed him all his vast treas- ures and asked fc-'olon if he did not ! think him a very happy man, to which Solon r plied , 'No man might think $ himself happy until he was dead;' and . 't Oy us. upon reflection, considering . the uncertainty of life, ordered Cioe- - . -V sns unbound and biought to him, and "?:5 he forgave him atd appointed him one "I ofihis councilors and took him home -ti-M&'M w.th him to Persia. TO BJC C'.'NTINU d. 4 "f t |