Assyrian king

but if you are defeated, be well assured that you will surrender it all to the enemy.

and the Assyrians, when they had lunched, came out boldly and bravely drew up in line.

Men, the gods announce, as the soothsayers say and also as I interpret it, that there is to be a battle;

Among innumerable instances of this kind in ancient history, we may select that given by Xenophon in his account of Cyrus, where that prince takes the king of the Indians for arbitrator between himself and the king of Assyria.