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Cyrus sent to him and asked:
Why then do you sit there and refuse to come down?
Because, he answered, I am in a quandary what to do.
But said Cyrus, there is no occasion whatever for that; for you are free to come down for trial.
And who, said he, will be my judge?
He, to be sure, to whom God has given the power to deal with you as he will, even without a trial.
Then the Armenian, recognizing the exigency of his case, came down. And Cyrus received both the king and all that belonged to him into the midst and set his camp round them, for by this time he had all his forces together.
Because, he answered, I am in a quandary what to do.
But said Cyrus, there is no occasion whatever for that; for you are free to come down for trial.
And who, said he, will be my judge?
He, to be sure, to whom God has given the power to deal with you as he will, even without a trial.
Then the Armenian, recognizing the exigency of his case, came down. And Cyrus received both the king and all that belonged to him into the midst and set his camp round them, for by this time he had all his forces together.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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