Thus she spoke; and Abradatas, touched by 1 her words, laid his hand upon her head and lifting up his eyes toward heaven prayed, saying: Grant me, I pray, almighty Zeus, that I may show myself a husband worthy of Panthea and a friend worthy of Cyrus, who has shown us honour.
As he said this, he mounted his car by the doors in the chariot-box.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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