When Chrysantas had finished his speech, 1 many supported him in the same tenor. After that, Cyrus moved into the royal palace, and those who had charge of the treasures brought from Sardis delivered them there. And after he took possession, Cyrus sacrificed first to Hestia, then to sovereign Zeus, and then to any other god that the magi suggested.
Cyropaedia. Xenophon. Walter Miller (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1914.
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