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At last the ditches were completed. Then, 1 when he heard that a certain festival had come round in Babylon , during which all Babylon was accustomed to drink and revel all night long, Cyrus took a large number of men, just as soon as it was dark, and opened up the heads of the trenches at the river.
At last the ditches were completed. Then, 1 when he heard that a certain festival had come round in Babylon , during which all Babylon was accustomed to drink and revel all night long, Cyrus took a large number of men, just as soon as it was dark, and opened up the heads of the trenches at the river.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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