Gyndes river
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Gyndes · that river · the river Gyndes
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The Histories
River in which Cyrus's sacred horse drowns, subsequently divided by his army into hundreds of canals as punishment.
but they spent the whole summer there before it was finished.
At this violence of the river Cyrus was very angry, and he threatened to make it so feeble that women could ever after cross it easily without wetting their knees.
Then at the beginning of the following spring, when Cyrus had punished the Gyndes by dividing it among the three hundred and sixty canals, he marched against Babylon at last.
On Anger
A river which Cyrus's army was crossing when a royal horse was swept away.
he swore, therefore, that he would reduce that river, which was carrying off the king's retinue, to such a state that it could be crossed and trodden even by women.
For when, about to besiege Babylon, he was hurrying to a war whose greatest crises lie in opportunities, he tried to cross the river Gyndes, which spreads wide, at a ford—a thing scarcely safe even when it has felt the summer and been brought to its lowest.
To this he then transferred all the apparatus of war, and sat over the work so long that he split the channel into a hundred and eighty trenches, dispersed it into three hundred and sixty streams, and left it dry, the waters flowing off in different directions.