Media

At last, however, his mother went away, but Cyrus remained behind and grew up in Media.

but at your grandfather’s court they do not recognize the same principles of justice as they do in Persia.

But if you leave me here and I learn to ride, I think you will find, when I come back to Persia, that I shall easily surpass the boys over there who are good at exercises on foot, and when I come again to Media, I shall try to be a help to my grandfather by being the best of good horsemen.

This trench extended up through the plain for a distance of twelve parasangs, reaching to the wall of Media, [Here also are the canals, which flow from the Tigris river;

After travelling three stages they reached the so called wall of Media, and passed within it.

From there they marched through Media, six desert stages, thirty parasangs, to the villages of Parysatis, the mother of Cyrus and the King.

A tribe of wandering Scythians separated itself from the rest, and escaped into Median territory.

Now the Cappadocians are called by the Greeks Syrians, and these Syrians before the Persian rule were subjects of the Medes, and, at this time, of Cyrus.

There, the Medes met the Scythians, who defeated them in battle, deprived them of their rule, and made themselves masters of all Asia.