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Afterwards, Cyaxares died after a reign of forty years (among which I count the years of the Scythian domination) and his son Astyages inherited the sovereignty.
Astyages had a daughter, whom he called Mandane: he dreamed that she urinated so much that she filled his city and flooded all of Asia (continent) Asia . He communicated this vision to those of the Magi who interpreted dreams, and when he heard what they told him he was terrified;
Afterwards, Cyaxares died after a reign of forty years (among which I count the years of the Scythian domination) and his son Astyages inherited the sovereignty.
Astyages had a daughter, whom he called Mandane: he dreamed that she urinated so much that she filled his city and flooded all of Asia (continent) Asia . He communicated this vision to those of the Magi who interpreted dreams, and when he heard what they told him he was terrified;
[2] and presently, when
Mandane was of marriageable age, he feared the vision too much to give her to any
Mede worthy to marry into his family, but married her to a
Persian called
Cambyses, a man whom he knew to be wellborn and of a quiet temper: for
Astyages held
Cambyses to be much lower than a
Mede of middle rank.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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