Histories

For if in any event another and not you had to possess the royal power, then in justice some Mede should have had it, not a Persian: but now you have made the Medes, who did you no harm, slaves instead of masters and the Persians, who were the slaves, are now the masters of the Medes.”

Thus Astyages was deposed from his sovereignty after a reign of thirty-five years: and the Medes had to bow down before the Persians because of Astyages' cruelty. They had ruled all Asia (continent)Asia beyond the Halys River (river), Turkey, Asia Halys for one hundred and twenty-eight years,[*](687 to 559 B.C. The Scythians ruled 634-606 B.C. ) from which must be subtracted the time when the Scythians held sway.

At a later time they repented of what they now did, and rebelled against Darius [*](In 520 B.C.; the event is recorded in a cuneiform inscription.) ; but they were defeated in battle and brought back into subjection. But now, in Astyages' time, Cyrus and the Persians rose in revolt against the Medes, and from this time ruled Asia (continent)Asia.